Word: habits
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...writer of the above seems to be ignorant of the fact that President Eliot has for years been in the habit of issuing just such a report as is spoken...
...select the crew; but aside from this, rowing is one of the best forms of exercise, and even those who do not intend to make a specialty of athletics will find themselves well repaid for the time spent in training. It is an excellent plan to get into the habit of steady, systematic gymnasium work, such as is required of the candidates, and every man will feel the benefit of this winter's work through the remainder of his college life. The complaint is often made that men will not train for any team unless they feel confident of securing...
...Registrar has been compelled to call attention to the regulation of the Faculty prohibiting ball playing in the college yard. It seems that a number of men have fallen into the habit of passing ball in the yard instead of taking advantage of the excellent facilities which are afforded on Holmes and Jarvis Fields. Last spring "scrub" games were continually taking place both mornings and afternoons, but there seems to be a persistent tendency to let base-ball drop as a pastime but to continue it as a business. A return to "old-fashioned" ball playing in the morning would...
...accomplished, and there is scarcely a single branch of athletics in which one or more have not been registered. This has been so in every description of contest, and has caused astonishment to the older generation of athletes, who have seen the performances, which they have been in the habit of thinking approached the marvellous, exceeded again and again...
...college, and the mischief was already done. We write this as an amende honorable to the colleges in question, due to them on account of this mischance, for which we can scarcely be held accountable; and we can only deplore the fact that our newspapers are so in the habit of publishing stories which they must know are make up out of whole cloth...