Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...misconception has provoked the spirited derision or the silent scorn of those famaliar with the facts. Acknowledging that the use of alcoholic stimulants had has a certain vogue at Harvard, they deny that it has been greater there than at other universities; and they contend that no one can tell whether its influence has been for good or evil. Alcohol has damaged some young men in college, no doubt,--though it would probably have damaged them just the same if they had never gone to college. That it has been an aid to others without doing them any harm...
There will probably be a period during which prohibition will not be absolute and alcohol will not be wholly shorn of its powers. It is possible that the members of the clubs have provided against an immediately dry future. There may be for a time club dinners that will be reminiscent of the past. But the skeleton will be obtrusive at the feast. No one who drinks now can be happy; no one who lives on his capital can be happy. Enjoyment of alcoholic drink depends on its being ungrudging. The days are gone when a man will offer...
...relating to National Prohibition can never be settled satisfactorily until they have been dragged into the light of free and frank public discussion. Should the 18th amendment be repealed, or itself amended? If it must stand, is it to be interpreted literally, so as to abolish all use of alcohol, or liberally so as to limit prohibition to actual intoxicants? These are questions which public opinion alone can answer, and the bombshell of national prohibition has left a very much dazed state of public opinion in its wake. As yet the actual enforcement of the 18th amendment is felt...
...human wastage cannot be computed. Statistics have been carefully gathered to show the extent of this drain on our national wealth. Contrary to the ignorant wisdom of proverb-mouthing fellows, figures do not lie. As a nation we must face without blindness the inevasible truth that the pleasure of alcohol has weakened sadly our strength...
...total we may say that alcohol does small real harm to college men. It wastes time, both in the imbibing and the recounting. It wastes money, but a college man would do that anyway. On the other hand, it puts the climax to a full evening, and affords the means of a certain amount of boon cordiality. The harm which the drinking of the college man does is not personal, but by example. There is a proportion of our citizens by no means small who, while vociferously disparaging the college man, yet copy after a fashion his method of dressing...