Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...himself. "To thine own self be true," indifference and all provided, of course, the sentiment or the appearance is genuine. The opposite of indifference is vivacity, susceptibility, enthusiasm. Alluring qualities. But what a jackanapes is he who merely affects them. At least the honesty of policy or habit which lets indifference stand when it is the stamp that has somehow been put upon the man, is, after all a recommendation in a college. Boston Transcript
With the increase of knowledge and the expansion of interests, the curriculum of the College broadened. Theology, too, gradually enlarged its scope. Accordingly, less time was allowed for theological studies while more was required. Candidates for the ministry fell into the habit of remaining at college after graduation in order to pursue theological study under the guidance of the Professor of Divinity. Finally, a theological school became a department of the University carrying on the original purpose of the College, to provide the churches with learned ministers...
...only ought such an institution to benefit those who consistently eat at the Union, but it should prove of advantage to students who are in the habit of dining at their individual clubs. While it is unlikely that the latter class of men would take all their meals at a "club table" in the Union, they might find that attendance at such a group, say three or more times a week, bad much to offer. Thus many friends whose social activities are confined to widely-separated clubs, but who are yet more than ordinarily congenial, would be brought together...
...glorification of college athletics has done much to establish the habit of athletics. It has also helped establish an illusion of life that makes harsh physical effort the thing; even after men go from the campus into business or the professions. . . . The vicious effect of it is this, that it tends to usurp all of one's waking hours and to cast them into activity, banishing that needed and delightful twilight zone of reverie and reflection that naturally intervenes between work and slumber. . . . The one who invented the crawly term of "lounge-lizard" is no friend of mine...
There is, so far as I have been able to discover, no special preparation to be recommended for the Law School. A good solid foundation in the facts of life and a habit of accurate thinking are the best assets. For these any liberal selection of college courses will...