Word: abstaining
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...things; and oh what happiness when men shall be delivered from the universe! What glory then for out pessimists, who alone can bring about reforms! They lead us wisely, for they see clearly that if men be allowed to retain their personal liberty to make use of, or to abstain from, alcohol, nicotine, and other curses from Heaven, they shall never come to perfection, but shall continue to retrogress and to die as in the past...
...duty of every Harvard man to abstain from offering nostrums of his own for the avoidance of war. The President will avoid war if it can honorably be avoided. If it cannot honorably be avoided, war must come. It is the duty of Harvard men to line up ready for orders, not to take a vote as to the wisdom of those orders. If war must come, let us enter the war as a united nation, not as a divided nation after a bitter political struggle. Let every Harvard man frown on the suggestion that war be preceded...
...average expense of every senior for each of his four years has been $1145. The number of men who use tobacco is 180, while 97 abstain from it; this is an increase in the number of smokers over last year. The number who use intoxicants on the other hand has decreased: 120 out of the 277 men in the class declare themselves total abstainers; 196 out of the class are church members, also a decrease from last year. A bare majority voted against required Sunday chapel, while an overwhelming majority were in favor of required morning chapel. Phi Beta Kappa...
...perhaps, a contribution of money to a friend in need, now a book from his library, now time and friendly counsel, offered to show appreciation and sympathy or to meet distress. This sense of kindliness was thoroughgoing. He had made it a principle, so he told me, to abstain from unfavorable personal criticism unless called for by some need. It was a rare event to hear him pass an unfriendly judgment, and he disliked to hear it done by others. He appreciated keenly the peculiarities of his acquaintances, and could characterize them with accuracy and wit. But such comments were...
...tradition of gentlemen, and the gentlemen are overpowered by the tradition. That the gentlemanly instinct at Harvard dies hard is shown by the half-hearted and inefficient manner in which our illegitimate cheering is conducted--as if those who lead it knew better, but not quite enough better to abstain. It has therefore not even the merit of whole-souled barbarity...