Central Collegiate Institute - Analecta Yearbook (Calgary, Alberta Canada)

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The Analecta 9 Foreivord HABITS “All habits gather by unseen degrees, As broods make rivers, rivers run to seas. — Dryden. Hou) use doth breed a habit in a man. — Shakespeare. I have been asked by the Editor to write a short article for the Analecta; something of a serious nature is the way he expressed it. I am very glad to comply with the request, because I hope thereby to show ray sympathy with the undertaking and because I am glad to have some part in the preparation of a magazine which I am sure will be a credit to the school. When one introduces the subject of habits it is generally understood that the discussion is going to centre around bad habits. But while bad habits are common and important enough, this article is concerned chiefly with good ones. These habits play a very important part in our lives. Some are merely mus¬ cular co-ordinations such as walking, swimming, riding a bicycle and the like, while others are of a more complex nature, being rather mental than muscular. Our manner, toward things in general, toward our work, our play, the manner of spending our spare time—all these become habits. As one professor ex¬ presses it “We are all bundles of habits.” We can select our own habits, and the shifting sands of unstable character or the solid rock of the strong purposeful life is the result. It is of supreme importance, especially to the young people, that they acquire and establish a large number of habits that will assist them on the road to happy and successful lives. The habits acquired in youth have to be lived with in a very intimate association throughout life. Every minute of day and night we are under the influence if not the absolute control of our bundle of hat 1 To eliminate a bad habit that has become fixed is a difficult undertaking, and requires more than a New Year’s resolution to accomplish the task 1 he proper way to approach the problem is to set about acquiring a good habit one which, when acquired, will interfere with the functioning of the undesirable one and eventually get rid of it. ' Suppose you have the very bad and not un¬ common habit of being inattentive in class and of not being able to concentrate. To make a resolution that you are going to improve in these respects will not get you very far, no matter how much in earnest you may be. But it you acquire the habit of making a mental or written resume of your lessons daily, lack of concentration and inattention will disappear when the good habit be¬ comes fixed. Again, suppose you have the habit of reading cheap badly written stories—kill it by getting into the habit of reading for a certain length of time each week some English classic. Indolence can be conquered by acquiring the habit of doing well a certain amount of work each day, not by resolutions to work harder made at regular times during the year. By eradicating the useless and harmful habits from our own individual bundles we leave the field open for the complete operation of the good and useful ones. For just as a good habit will, if fostered and encouraged, exclude the corresponding bad one, so a bad habit will, if retained, lessen and even- tually destroy the good influence of the right kind of habit. — Principal.

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