Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Cosmopolitan--(July), "Error Through Strong Drink," J. Hawthorne...
...tastes or he has not. No amount of legislation will increase the desire for theoretical learning in the unintellectual man; no amount of athletic contest by his classmates will decrease this desire in the truly intellectual man. "You can drive a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink...
...pretending to be the injured husbands of the women who have sent the flowers. In the burlesque scene which follows the joke is turned on Narciso, but the amicable relations of the five friends are not upset by the fun, and as the curtain falls they drink to each others' health in a hearty toast...
...Grenfell is a magistrate, a holder of the Board of Trade certificate of competency as a master-mariner, and an agent of Lloyds in pursuing seamen who wreck their vessels for the insurance. He is an active opponent of the fraud, oppression and drink evils which prevail in Labrader. Last year he was made a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George by King Edward, and recently he has received from Oxford the first M.D. degree that this university has ever given...
...great deal by your life here. Nothing does more harm to our cause when we are struggling against immorality than to see in a University, the centre of culture, any laxation on this point. Unless you Harvard men are absolutely sound on the question of morality and drink, you are undermining our work and are doing the world more harm than good. Spend a year after leaving college in the slums of a great city, and you will gain the best practice in the world for many a career. Finally you will add to our admiration and love...