Word: brought
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President Cleveland has brought out the fact that we need to get our feet upon solid ground again...
...would seem, is conversant in scientific affairs, sent us a long communication in regard to the misstatements of his predecessor. These corrections were perfectly correct and justifiable, but there is a question about the propriety of his intimating that the lecturer was "sadly in error." The latter is thus brought into a controversy in which he takes no interest and which is wholly out of his province The remarks which he made in the philosophy course from which our first correspondent derived his "facts," were based on the highest authority, such as the journal of the Linnean Society...
...regard to the winter meetings, we are glad to see that the custom of past years has been retained in holding the feather-weight sparring on the first Ladies' Day. It had been proposed to transfer it to the first meeting, which would have brought all the sparring on one already over-crowded day, and also would have unjustly handicapped men who might wish to enter not only the feather-weight, but also the light-weight contests. A number of arguments have been urged, to be sure, against having any boxing on a Ladies' Day, the chief of which...
...habits in drink. The total abstainer obtains better terms than the moderate drinker. The question of total abstinence is answered, and there is no longer any discussion upon the subject that adds anything new. We can tolerate elderly men who take their wine, for they were brought up under an old regime, but there is no excuse for a young man who drinks. After dwelling upon the injurious effects of alcohol upon the heart, and so on the whole organism, the desirability of "no-license" was advocated, for it must be wrong to license the sale of any commodity which...
...schools throughout the United States are teaching total abstinence under penalty of losing their subsidies from the State governments. The lecturer brought this fact out as more noteworthy, because of the well-known corruption of our legislatures, which he considered at some length...