Word: abstaining
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Junior should, in any event, have been manly enough to sign his real name to his article. In such a case, one should either dare to own one's criticisms or abstain from them...
...Five Mile Road Race from places where they are put up until after that event comes off. The posters are expensive and in addition their loss causes considerable annoyance and inconvenience. Several have already disappeared and it does not seem too much to ask that students should abstain from hindering, even if they do not wish to aid, the success of a college event...
...short account of the medical profession among the early Greeks, he analyzed the oath, or obligation, taken by the students of medicine, in the time of Pericles. The candidate for graduation promised solemnly that he would be loyal in every way to his chosen profession, that he would abstain from all wrong and injustice, that he would not furnish poison to anyone soliciting it, that he would not lead astray anyone committed to his charge, but that he would pass his life and exercise his art in purity and holiness. The candidate further promised that whatever he should hear...
...just so soon as he becomes an active member of an organic whole, just so soon does his relation to it, determine his relations to the drink question. To illustrate by a single example - perhaps he is to be a surgeon; then to have a steady hand he must abstain...
...candidates shall abstain from tobacco in any form, intoxicating drink and general dissipation...