Word: habits
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...knows definitely whether Germany has the legal right to sink American ships should diplomatic relations be severed between the United States and that country. Only a very few have a clear idea of the historical facts which point to the reasons for the nation's present crisis. The habit of taking an intelligent interest in national questions must first be acquired by the young men in our colleges. Such a habit, which is all important for the progress of any nation, is at present nonexistent in America. Habits of any character are seldom formed in old or middle...
...Polo Grounds the West Point men again triumphed over the Annapolis men. The Army has had the winning habit since 1913. Before that the Navy had had rather the better of the contests. . . . . . The midshipmen must manage, of course, to get back in their old football form as Yale has done, but Yale had suffered more from Harvard than Annapolis has yet suffered from West Point, and there is plenty of time. Congratulations to the Army and to the Yale men, but not a word of commiseration for Harvard and the Navy. There were two fair contests and the best...
Yale defeats at the hands of Harvard will never become a habit without the active support of the undergraduate body at every game. There has not been proper support given the team this fall, and only a giant effort today and next Saturday will convince Captain Dadmun's men that they are really fighting for Harvard rather than for some university for the education of the dumb...
...with regard to the near future and that other New Haven game: we know that winning from Princeton is an old Yale custom--a rule which has been proved by few exceptions since 1899. Of late years, too, the habit of losing on the following Saturday has developed. Yale's customs are stubborn things to uproot...
With regard to the Freshmen: "the child is father to the man" and it is never too early to start a good habit. From this team and its successors come the players on whose merit future Harvard elevens must stand or fall...