Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...activity is away from alcoholic stimulants. The speaker then related numerous personal experiences in the army and in his literary life and travels which bore upon this point. The second argument is that of mental health. All brain workers testify to this. Another is that of personal safety from danger. The next consideration is that of safety from suspicion. It moreover is right that we should have consideration for others. A man may further the cause of temperance by moderation, but moderation is the inferior method...
...advantage to a healthy student, unless now and then, socially, in the intervals of mental labor. "I have never smoked," Matthew Arnold writes, "and have always drunk wine - chiefly claret. As to the use of wine, I can only speak for myself. Of course, there is the danger of excess; but a healthy nature and the power of self-control being pre-supposed, one can hardly do better, I should think, than 'follow nature' as to what one drinks and its times and quantity. I suppose most young people could do as much without wine as with it. Real brain...
...rumor from Washington says there is danger of a rupture of the friendly relations between this country and England because of certain publications here of matters connected with the Irish question...
...students, as few will read them, but for the sake of the few who have the curiosity to read them, it is suggested that some of our instructors in political economy or history step forward and expose the fallacies contained in these pamphlets. That there is, however, any danger to be apprehended from these pamphlets we doubt. We are far from being so dogmatic as to maintain that protection has no legs to stand on, but if the evasions and one-sided arguments of these pamphlets are the best exponents of the protectionist theory, the advocates of this side...
...WHAT?An "Alumnus" of Columbia writes to the N. Y. Evening Post: "The conservative spirit prevailing in the council of Columbia College, of which this latest action is a very good example, apparently looks upon co-education as something radical, and revolutionary, and untried in fact as a positive danger to society and morality. The examples of Cornell, Oberlin, Michigan University, and the late concessions at Harvard, are not even alluded to, although the evidence in favor of co-education from these institutions is overwhelming...