Word: habits
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...preventive of, and a cure for, poor scholarship. It introduces the student to those studies in which he may attain excellence. It abolishes the ne cessity of his knocking his head against departments of knowledge in the attaining of which his ability is slight. It tends to establish the habit of intellectual thoroughness; it advances scholarship in every realm of study, in the case of the professor as well as of the student...
Another prominent feature of the intellectual training which the college affords is made possible by the elective system. This feature consists in the habit of personal investigation of special subjects. It might, perhaps, be called the university, as distinguished from the college, ideal. In many departments each student is asked to investigate certain authorities, and to make a report upon the results of his voyage of discovery. In physics a student may be instructed to study certain peculiar phenomena. In American history he may be permitted to devote his attention for a time to one series of events. Subjects, rather...
...certainly is very rude for a man to leave the lecture room before the lecture is finished, and that so many are in the habit of doing it is to be regretted. Of course under certain circumstances, such as sudden illness, leaving the room during the lecture is perfectly excusable, but for a man to leave simply because he finds the lecture rather dry or because he is rather sleepy, is rude to both lecturer and fellow students. If a man goes with the idea of leaving in the middle of the hour, or soon after the roll call...
...believe in the dissemination of news, college as well as general, through the medium of the press, there is nothing more deplorable than the tendency of that medium to emphasize and make capital out of personal attacks. Nothing is so strong a reminder in ordinary times of the execrable habit of mud-slinging and vilification, now so common a feature of campaign paper warfare. The articles which have appeared from time to time in the Herald, not only on the subject of boating but on the action of the faculty committee, have contained so many personal allusions of a disagreeable...
...executive committee of the Berlin students posted a notice on the bulletin board during the past semester requesting the discontinuance of the habit of scraping and stamping the feet on the arrival and departure of the professor, and advised instead the practice in vogue elsewhere of rising and standing during the entrance and exit of a favorite instructor. Student custom in Germany varies somewhat in this respect. The professor usually comes in after his audience is assembled and generally leaves before the others withdraw. In many places his coming and going receive no attention unless he be advanced...