Word: habited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Whether or not this story is true, dining hall biddies have been so concerned this spring about keeping the undergraduate well-clothed that the incident is easy to believe. Another slightly less plausible explanation is that the cleaning biddies have communicated their perennial aversion to shorts, acquired from their habit of sweeping around those strewn on bedroom floors, to the dining hall staff. At any rate, the biddies are opposed to Bermuda shorts and are forcing their inhibitions on Harvard undergraduates. Housemasters, long defenders of good taste in dress, obviously do not realize what is going on in their...
Unfortunately, television encourages passivity rather than activity. It is easy. It is habit-forming. It fosters the dangerous idea that we can learn by letting knowledge drip on us like rain from heaven...
...same time that the Ford Foundation set up the Fund for the Advancement of Education, the second subsidiary agency was established--the Fund for Adult Education. Founded to provide adults with liberal education beyond formal schooling, the Fund seeks to foster "the ability to think independently and the habit of critical thought rather than passive acceptance of ready-made opinions...
When it was over, the Naval Academy crew hardly knew what to do. It had been so long since they lost (three years and 31 races) that the old rowing tradition of collecting the losers' shirts had become a happy habit. But last week the Middies got a reminder that that sort of shirt-shucking can work both ways. Though they rowed their hearts out on Boston's choppy Charles River, they slid past the finish line a long length and a half behind the University of Pennsylvania...
...matter what is going on at Caltech, competition is the order of the day-everywhere, that is, except possibly on the gridiron. There, Coach Bert LaBrucherie, who once led U.C.L.A. to the Rose Bowl and later got thrown out because he failed to make it a habit, rules one of the oddest squads in the history of U.S. football. Though the boys play hard, they have cheerfully lost 25 games in a row. At one time, when they piled up a losing score of 12-18 against their archrival Occidental, a local paper headlined the news: CALTECH THROWS SCARE INTO...