Word: habits
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...editor of Progress relates a doleful experience of his as a college student: "During the brief while that I honored the University of Pennsylvania with my presence as an alleged student, it was the habit of my class and myself to invest every morning, each of us, in a quarter dollar's worth of roasted almonds, to help while away the weary hours of college life. Just before ten A. M., when the chapel bell would call us from the Continental, Girard, and other neighboring billiard saloons (the university was then on Ninth street, above Chestnut,) we would proceed...
...training they could obtain from their friends and the few athletes in college who have volunteered their services. Such an arrangement, at the best, can be but a temporary one. It is a poor substitute for the regular and careful training that most college athletes have been in the habit of receiving, and naturally the results will be below the standard. Although we may keep the championship cup this year without the services of a competent trainer, we can hardly expect to do so hereafter. The lack of good training is felt as much in this as in other branches...
...attempt to solve that great problem of modern times - the marking system - rather than as a legitimate guide in the selection of courses. To remove the objection of meagreness of the elective pamphlet and as a supplement to it, the instructors in geology have been in the habit for the past few years of issuing a separate descriptive circular of the courses under their charge. This year their example is to be followed by the instructors in the departments of Greek and Latin. This circular is to be an enlargement of the sheet heretofore distributed by the Greek department, giving...
...sleep. One should aim for a complete mastery over himself in such matters, so that he can command sleep at will and thus economize time and force. By such a course the usual average of his sleep can be reduced to 7 or 6 1/2 hours with safety. The habit of reading one's self to sleep is to be deprecated, since it may become a troublesome one and interfere sadly with serious study. It is doubtful whether the sleep gained before twelve o'clock is of any more value than that afterwards. The conditions favorable to sleep then...
...enjoy to a certain extent the benefits of the society, they have contributed nothing to its maintenance. There are, moreover, other good results flowing from the society which it would hardly be possible to express in figures, and which will extend beyond our college life. We refer to the habit of cash payment which, it is to be hoped, students, having learnt at college, will carry with them through life...