Word: habits
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this evening, at 7 o'clock. This service is held at the request of some of the members of Dr. Fitch's Bible Class for Freshmen which meets informally on Monday evenings. It is particularly desirable that students in their first year at Cambridge, who are not in the habit of attending Chapel regularly, should take advantage of this opportunity to come within its sphere of influence, and learn what advantages it offers to them...
...them. In connection with the hospital work it is worthy of notice that in this land of pure air tuberculosis is the chief enemy of the people. To help the natives to fight the disease instruction is given, whenever possible, in sanitary methods of living, and today the old habit of keeping shanties absolutely airtight is slowly dying...
...games have not been the custom at Harvard. An objection against them may be raised in that they will mean the necessity of Saturday morning cuts for the team and perhaps tend to increase cuts that morning on the part of all students. Yet the Office is in the habit of excusing cuts when athletic teams play games away from home, and to a certain extent even when the games are in Cambridge, if early lunches are necessary...
...worth while here to remark that, contrary to the apparent implications of the verse, the Pope is believed by Catholics to be neither impeccable as a man, nor necessarily and in all cases infallible as a priest in giving voice to his decisions. Nor is he in the habit of passing judgments on trivial matters or on trivial occasions. There were, not many years since, a group of ill-informed but docile persons who were interested in improving their knowledge concerning the Catholic faith. They wrote down questions upon slips of paper, and placed them...
Cheating in examinations is a typical college sin; by the attitude of the undergraduate body of any college towards it, the moral spirit of that college can be very largely determined. It is not a prevalent habit at Harvard even where it is possible--as in hour examinations and in shorter tests--and when it does occur, the offender is usually properly discountenanced. Yet there could be a great improvement, both in the honesty of certain undergraduates in the class room and in the feeling of the College at large toward whatever dishonesty there is in tests and examinations...