Word: habits
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...themselves but what is more fallacious, that their individual participation and responsibility is not only unnecessary but useless. The latter attitude is not only fallacious but dangerous, because it is a negative attack upon representative government as a whole, of which college politics are a fair sample. The habit, therefore, of taking an interest and feeling a responsibility in the choosing of the men who represent you in one activity or another cannot be cultivated too soon; and at least one good will be accomplished--that the accusation suggested at the beginning of this article is now obsolete...
...serious attempt was made by certain churchmen in the University to require the compulsory attendance of Freshmen at Chapel for a portion of the year. It was believed that many men failed to attend chapel for no other reason than that they had never attempted to cultivate the habit. Although this attempt to secure some form of compulsory chapel was undoubtedly wisely defeated before it had much more than originated, the desirability of remedying conditions which annually cause many men to state that they have never been possessed of even sufficient curiosity to enter the chapel once in their four...
...efficacy of prayers there is no doubt but that indirectly through the effect on the men themselves such a proclamation can result in great good. There could be no more auspicious occasion for all those who have as yet failed to attend service to begin the cultivation of the habit than tomorrow,--Peace Sunday...
Although Cornell has a habit of making things decidedly unpleasant for opposing oarsmen, the University welcomes the coming of the Cornell crews to the Charles for their races with the University and Freshman eights today...
Under the system the work of the tutors will be to guide students in their respective fields of study, to assist them in co-ordinating the knowledge which they have derived from different courses, and to stimulate in them the reading habit. The work of tutors will be entirely independent of the conduct of courses, and the tutors as such will have no control over the work or the grades of any student in any college course. Their assistance will naturally be of indirect benefit to the student in his work in individual courses, but their main function will...