Word: habits
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...runs and Harvard five; score, 25 to 21. In this inning "man or carriage in Jarvis street muffs foul badly off Smith; seeing which, Smith begins a series of fouls, one of which drops the ball in a swamp and renders necessary a new one." How like the playful habit of "our Clarence!" In the eighth, both sides score four runs, a "fat man in a carriage" stopped another hot foul. The ninth was short and gloriously decisive." Lowell makes one run and Harvard three. "Ecstatic joy and tumultuous congratulations for about five minutes." The nine is carried...
...championship; Williams was unhappily victorious to the tune of 39 to 37, and the Yale freshmen beat the Harvard freshmen 36 to 33. The Williams audience "had a way of crowing over any bad luck on our side with a Yi! Yi! Yi! and a howl," an unpleasant habit, gained, thinks the Advocate from New York "professionals, firemen and roughs." The grand match for the championship of New England with the Lowell club was also lost 37 to 27, and the season ended with great disappointment among Harvard backers, This match, which took place on Boston Common for a silver...
...good effect. The books which cannot be found are not always "surreptitiously taken by a member of - ," as the communication of yesterday in regard to the binder showed. The communication to-day speaks of their being left on the tables in the reading room. While we certainly condemn this habit of not returning them to their proper places after using them, on the other hand we think that those who fail to find books at the first touch, should show a little mercy in looking for them before rushing into print with complaints and unjust accusations...
...uncommon nuisance, which has been commented on by both instructors and students, is the exceedingly ill-bred habit which many men have of whistling in the entries of Sever Hall during recitation time. Many classes are dismissed before the rest disperse, and men who have other recitations in Sever the next hour wander up and down the sounding corridors, whiling away the time by whistling and talking. This is not only a piece of great ill-breeding, but it is a nuisance to both instructors and students; it is impossible for the former to lecture, or the latter to listen...
...those intentions with a fair degree of tenacity through the distractions which beset his daily path? We need, indeed we must have, a third class of helpful limitations which may be influential over the persistent adhesion of our student to his chosen line of work. To establish onward-leading habits, therefore, should be one of the chief objects in devising limitations of election. The habit wanted is the habit of spontaneous attack. Prescription deadened this vital habit. Election invigorates the springs of action. I believe study at Harvard is to-day more interested, energetic, and persistent than it has ever...