Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Library Committee of the Union has decided to close the library during the first three days of next week, but it will be open the rest of the week at the usual hours. The committee has elected W. C. Lane '81 chairman and A. Drink-water '00, secretary for the ensuing year...
...meeting of the Freshman class last night the plans for class beer-nights were announced. Beer-nights will be held every week, or every other week, beginning after the mid-years. It was urged that it is fully as important for men who do not wish to drink beer or ginger ale to come as for the others, in order to make the meetings successful, and to provide for a general good time...
...together, by private capitalists for great personal gain, they will be more powerful than the most drastic law that can be framed. The Committee of Fifty tried to secure an experimental bill in Massachusetts to throw all liquor dealing and traffic into a monopoly so that fewer attractions to drink would be offered, and it was defeated by a very narrow margin. The Gottenberg system, which has produced results in Norway far ahead of any other systems elsewhere, has now been started in England by private companies with great success and will probably be the ultimate solution of the problem...
Warland and Leonard defeated Derby and Wendelt by default; Goodridge and Barrows defeated George and Drink-water, 6-3, 12-10; Rice and Tappin defeated Penhallow and Estes, 6-1, 6-4; Stillman and Downs defeated Lincoln and Stettinius...
...cause a mutiny in the crew so that he may return victorious to Norway and wed the beautiful Sylvia, to whom Leif is betrothed. Sigurd incites the crew to mutiny and they engage the medicine man to offer Leif some drugged wine. Leif and Tyrker return at dusk and drink copiously of the wine and and Leif names the land "Wineland the Good." The drug has its effect and both drowsily fall on the rocks. They doze off to sleep as Sigurd and the Vikings go aboard ship and raise the sails...