Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...laws of Harvard College," he replied, "forbid the use of tobacco, strong beer, wine, or any other inebriating drink...
...words more, and I shall ask your pardon if I hurry on in a very unconnected way. To come back to college drunkenness, you will find as you grow more familiar with college life that a great many men talk about getting drunk who seldom drink too much. You will find, too, that many of the fellows who in the beginning of the course have occasionally been overcome by punch, soon give it up. And you may generalize from this to other sorts of dissipation, which I have neither the space nor the inclination to specify...
Students were prohibited from going "into any Taverne, vittaileing house, or Inne to eate or drink," without such reasons as may be approved of; from using tobacco, and from having in their rooms "strong beare, wine, or strong water, or any other enebriateing drink...
...statement which involves Oriental notions of property in women, and at the same time a highly objectionable tendency to free love. We are next informed that "the maiden's glance invites advance," and after being suffered to advance, we are requested to "drink bliss like sparkling wine," - sentences upon which comment is needless. And, finally, the veracity of all ladies is impugned in the lines...
...equal all men are. Have not all men eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and limbs alike? Have not all men minds and thoughts? Do not all men eat, and drink, and sleep, and talk? And does the fact that a man eats, or drinks, or sleeps, or talks more than his neighbor make him that neighbor's superior? The idea is preposterous, it is shameful, it is damnable. The man who publicly declares that there are lower classes is worthy of the gallows...