Word: habits
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...drilling make it a point to attend at least one hour a day and make the most of that hour, it will not be long before they are able to go through the manual of arms and the simple tactics with some degree of precision, and moreover acquire the habit of listening to orders and obeying them. At present there is neither the regularity in attendance that could be wished, nor enough discipline to satisfy the squad leaders. Another drawback is, that new men constantly joining the squads are a retarding influence...
...special topics of Mr. Peirce's lectures will be as follows: Feb. 10, Philosophy and the Conduct of Life; Feb. 14, Types of Reasoning; Feb. 17, The Logic of Relatives; Feb. 21, The First Rule of Logic; Feb. 24, Training in Reasoning; Feb. 28, Causation and Force; March 3, Habit; March 7, The Logic of Continuity...
...causes of this vast destruction, Mr. Hornaday attributed to the absence of popular sentiment against it, and thus to the absence of strict laws, and the enforcement of laws already in existence. Other causes are the destructive habit of collecting among boys and ornithologists, and the ravages of the sportsman and plume hunter...
Thus we should be entering upon new diplomatic complications-we whose habit of unnecessary peremptoriness toward other nations makes us peculiarly liable to bungle with such untried and delicate responsiblities...
...secret practice before the big game of the season, has reached a point where little more can be done to develop it. As a result, most men who know a little, and a great many who know nothing, about football seem to be falling, as usual, into the dangerous habit of prophecy...