Word: habits
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Perhaps there is no saying more trite than that a custom or habit once firmly established in a community is apt to continue unnoticed long after it has become, in the opinion of outsiders, an unmitigated evil. Equally evident must be the fact that of all communities a large college would be the last place where such a situation could exist for any length of time. But in dealing with the delicate subject of undergraduate honor, we feel that an abuse, the seriousness of which few suspect, has flourished in our midst far longer than any excuse can justify...
...characterized the lectures in one of the large Sophomore courses during the last few weeks recall to some of us our school days, when any childish amusement was preferable to paying attention to the teacher. Apparently there are still many "college men" who are strongly addicted to the puerile habit of stamping. As a means of expressing approval or disapproval of what a lecturer says, the use of a pair of large and hardy feet (organs indispensable in many emergencies) is absurd. Men of impulsive natures with frequent and acute temptations to stamp in lectures, should practice self-restraint...
...activities' which help so much in the development of the well-rounded man, should be condemned; but for all of these and a much higher standard of work there is ample time in the twenty-four hours of the day. The truth is that college students have the lax habit of thinking that college work and engagements should follow, not take precedence of, the pressing engagements of undergraduate activities, the social life of the College, and the outside world...
...this plan, but the practice is by no means universal. If it were, we should no longer be frequently forced to remain an hour in a class room containing practically no oxygen, but at least one cold-blooded individual with a strong aversion for fresh air and an inveterate habit of shutting windows...
...muscular development of the athlete is in itself of little value in after life, but the power of argumentation and the logical habit of thought, as well as the ease and freedom in extemporaneous speaking to which debating work leads, are permanent elements in one's mental make-up invaluable throughout after life...