Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Your statement that if some one should so far forget himself as to drink to excess at the hall, and be seen by some of the frequent visitors, Harvard would not only be severely handled by those who are always on the alert to find some fault, but would even be seriously misjudged by the many who are unprejudiced. But could not the same thing be said of men drinking anywhere, and do you not virtually say that the only safety lies in total abstinence...
...suggestion that I should like to make. It will probably seem to many decidedly unconservative, and many will perhaps frown upon it as nonsensical. What I propose is nothing less than that ale or beer be allowed at dinner. The arguments usually advanced against the introduction of this healthy drink at Memorial are perfectly ludicrous. It is silly to suppose that men would for an instant so far forget their self-respect as to drink to excess. The use of ale or beer is a time-honored and a cherished custom of English commons, where no one has ever thought...
...wealthier students board at comfortable boarding-houses and get a full meal, and probably, too, eat French dishes and drink champagne twice a week in Boston; but the poorer class has to choose between a cheap and nasty boarding-house and Memorial Hall, and so does not get that amount of nutrition which a young man in full physical and intellectual activity requires, whereas in well-qualified hands Memorial Hall might be a great boon to the student. At Cambridge, England, in consequence of complaints, some of the fellows of colleges gave the commissariat their most careful personal supervision...
...tell you what I mean to do. Leave off my lazy habits in the first place, smoke no cigars, drink no wine, own no armchair, and stick to the law, Tom, without a poney. I've had an easy time in college, and have enjoyed well the 'Otium cum dignitate' - the learned leisure of a scholar's life - always despising digging, you know, and what with ticking, screwing and deading, am candidate for a piece of parchment tomorrow, certifying that I am admitted to be by all A. B., which being interpreted is A Booby, a passport all the world...
...Physical Training." Special subject, "Food and Drink." Prof. Sargent. Sever...