Word: habits
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Morgan is well known as a psychologist, and has given much time to the study of mind and instinct in animals. He has written several authoritative books upon this and kindred subjects. He is this year delivering a course of Lowell Lectures on "Habit and instinct in Animals...
...have only about $2500. It will be observed that $10,000 per annum is equivalent to an endowment of $200,000 bearing 5 percent interest. We ask you for a contribution and we desire the liberty of asking you for it every year until you form the habit of adding this to your list of annual gifts. Yale men have established a reputation for courage and persistence; let them not neglect to be liberal, especially toward their mother, Yale...
...sorry to see their position attacked as unpatriotic, especially by one whose character for independence and common sense is so well established as Mr. Roosevelt's. He would be the last man to acquiesce tamely in what he believed to be an outrage, and he is not in the habit of respecting persons or office in his expressions of opinion. What now would be think to be the proper attitude of a professor of Law or of History, whose opinion is sure to carry weight, when he sees the President and Congress threatening war against a nation...
...morning of the 19th, halted there twenty minutes, and arrived in Concord at seven, an hour after sunrise. The colonists were ready for the invaders of their village, and the minute men continued to swarm in from the country during the morning hours. They hesitated, however, from habit, from loyalty, and perhaps from wholesome fear, to put themselves in the attitude of rebels. But when the detachment at the bridge fired upon our men, Major Buttrick no longer stayed his hand, but cried to his force of militia, "Fire, fellow soldiers, for God's sake fire!" This was the beginning...
...boat is still to row their oars out of the water badly at the finish. The discipline of the crew is apparently lax when the men are rowing, and the time is often bad because of the tendency of several men to look out of the boat, a habit of inattention which cannot be too strongly condemned in a freshman crew just beginning its work on the river...