Word: habits
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...great truth of the old vision is that the secret of a righteous life is to stand up. We teach our children to stand instead of leaning and lolling about, not only because it looks better to stand unsupported but because the habit carries a moral lesson. The first thing a recruit is taught to do is to stand straigt, no for looks but because the act of so standing conveys the idea of discipline. And for centuries the word in our language which is the typical expression fro absolute honesty has been uprightness...
...Harvard launch has at last arrived on the river in thoroughly good repair. A new tubular boiler has been put into her which does not have the habit of bursting every day or two. The crew is very fortunate in securing the services of a thoroughly good engineer who lives in Cambridge. Heretofore the accidents to the boat have been as much due to the engineer as to anything else...
...disagreeable noises that occur near the close of the recitations it may be well to call attention to those that occur just after their beginning. Tardy men frequently make a great deal of noise on entering and passing to their seats. In fact the exceptions to this rude habit are so rare in some classes that a stranger might easily suppose that Harvard men had set their own standard of conduct on this point. It is hardly necessary to say more by way of comment, than that besides its ungentlemanly character, this practice is decidedly annoying to students. and certainly...
...students. There is certainly enough open space at the disposition of players for them to carry on this exercise elsewhere than in the neighborhood of apparatus which may be damaged by stray balls. Moreover when the faculty has been so courteous as merely to call attention to the careless habit and leave the matter to be righted by student action, it is only right for the students to obey as promptly as if they were obliged...
...there may be a descent, but mentally and morally there is never descent. Many great men owe some of their strength to the obstacles they had to overcome. There are enough difficulties in the way of every human being; the best training any young man can get is a habit of grappling with them and conquering them...