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Word: drinking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...before the Yale faculty tonight to answer to a charge of hazing E. Rowe, Jr., of this city, a member of the freshman class. Rowe appeared before the faculty accompanied by his father, and stated that Ater and his companions took him to a saloon and, after making him drink milk from a nursing bottle, stripped a portion of his clothing from his body and made him dance a jig and sing songs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hazing at Yale. | 10/1/1887 | See Source »

...freshmen, drink deep from the cup and learn for the first time what life is. Sophomores and juniors repeat the happiness, you have found before. If you are seniors, que Dieu soit avee vous. Let the bitterness of the thought that this is your last brief season of rest before entering the hard struggle of life but make the time the madder and the merrier. Live while you can for to-morrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/13/1887 | See Source »

...authorities who preside over the college yard to a little matter which is under their jurisdiction. We wish to enter an emphatic protest against the water which the pump near Matthews supplies to thirsty students. This water is, and has been for a long time, totally unfit to drink. We have been told on good authority that the water has been analyzed and found to contain impurities to a large amount. Now whatever the cause of this pollution is, it seems to us that the water ought not to remain in this condition. Although it may be in a certain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/25/1887 | See Source »

...love of moral purity inherent in it awakens a great sensibility to moral questions, and we should do our share to further the cause. The lecturer then discussed the educational and political aspect of the prohibition movement. Life insurance companies take cognizance of a man's 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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Temperance Lecture. | 3/3/1887 | See Source »

...sacrifice in a social way which would be incurred. He said that he could not speak so much for college life, but he could testify for all after life that no social pleasure could ever be hindered by the non use of liquors. A man who doesn't drink in college is like a man who is restricting his expenses somewhat in order to take a life insurance policy. The greatest claim to be urged for abstinence is that the student will enter the struggle of life with one handicap the less...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Col. Higginson and Gen. Swift speak on Temperance. | 1/22/1887 | See Source »

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