Word: dram
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Record severely condemns the bad habit of marking library books. We would go a little farther, and condemn that of marking even one's own, for this reason: book-marking is like dram-drinking and only total abstinence can safely guard us against excess. Anybody who has seen a young lady's copy of Tennyson, and searched in vain for an unmarked page, will recognize the evils of indulgence. Of course when it comes to marking other people's books, the injury is moral as well as mental...
...been started, is growing beneath our very nose! We believe they have a "City Hall" and a "Government," - we are not sure that the College, whose refining, softening, broadening influence has so long been felt throughout the whole country, is not partly in the power of a collection of dram-drinking politicians! Cambridgeport, indeed! What would it be without Harvard? A collection of slaughter-houses, - a pig-killing village. Whoever heard of Cambridge but as the seat of Harvard University, from which it got its very name...