Word: habits
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...under the impression that the editors of the Advocate, as well as those of other college papers, make them up, and have difficulty "filling" at the last moment. This is a fatal habit. Why not keep on hand a quantity of good fiction and verse? Much good stuff is to be had from English 12 and English...
...delivering a series of lectures under the auspices of the Lowell Institute of Boston, will lecture in the Living Room of the Union next Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock The lecture, which will be open to Union members only, will be on "Reason and Intellect versus Custom and Habit in the Nutrition of Man," and will be illustrated by the stereopticon...
Some people say the church is losing its power, that we are losing our faith. However true that may be, from their standpoint, I venture to say that we are losing that mediaeval habit of dreaming of the celestial opportunities of day-after-tomorrow. Immortality as revealed by our faith, should mean a man's living now, not that he is going to live at some future time. I count it far better to deserve immortality and not to have it than to have it and not deserve...
...choice are his studies and his friends. He should choose those studies in which he takes a live interest and in which, because of that interest, he will work with real pleasure and happiness. In that way, he will learn the pleasure of work and will get into the habit of doing work with lively interest. That attitude will be most valuable in after life, as everything worth while in the world is accomplished by work. Secondly, the new student should choose good companionship. He should choose an environment and surroundings that will lift him up and not drag...
...after a week or two, it appeared that the whole affair had passed very much out of his mind, he saying frankly that he did so much of that sort of thing that he might easily have confused it with other events. He said that it was rather his habit, after public days in Boston, to take a look in at the Cambridge police-court next day, to see that his boys, if in any trouble, had justice done them; and that in most cases, as would doubtless happen in this, the mere fact of arrest would be sufficient punishment...