Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...legislate people into goodness, nor can we make the undergraduate body go to hear good music rendered by their fellow-students if they won't; but it seems as if the old adage might be considered that, "although you can lead a horse to water, you cannot make him drink." It is worthy of notice that this remark is made of a quadruped, but not a biped; in fact, if a biped is led to a beautiful stream of water, we might assume that he would take a long and refreshing drink, or even jump in all over...
...long distance, however, must be covered before the Yale game. These next weeks the College, as well as the team itself should, in the words of Coach Hardwick, "eat, drink, and sleep football." Every opportunity to help the team along, every chance to add a little more spirit to that fighting organization, must be utilized to full capacity. Victories in the early season will not win the Yale game; only hard work by every member of the University will accomplish this result...
...field of bones and ruins. But alcohol has passed and is forgotten; the country is completely dry. Never is a drunken man seen; in no street car or subway hovers a whiskey breath; no idiotic gaiety can be found in our cafes; every one is serious; no one drinks nor even desires a drink, for all realize now what a fearful poison alcohol is, and without exception the nation rejoices in the profound conviction that wine is neither a food nor an excellent beverage, that the pleasant hours and the comradeship which it gave us were but hallucinations...
...arsenic, cyanide of potassium and other poisons, as beverages? Why should attractive solutions of alcohol, a slower but no less genuine poison than those mentioned, be sold and quaffed and dignified by custom and tradition as promoting good fellowship? Why in the name of common sense, should we not drink laudanum, "blue vitriol," dilute sulphuric acid and other such beverages if we insist on having wine, beer, whiskey, brandy and gin? The acknowledged poisons would merely hasten the result by a few years...
...wholly shorn of its powers. It is possible that the members of the clubs have provided against an immediately dry future. There may be for a time club dinners that will be reminiscent of the past. But the skeleton will be obtrusive at the feast. No one who drinks now can be happy; no one who lives on his capital can be happy. Enjoyment of alcoholic drink depends on its being ungrudging. The days are gone when a man will offer a conktail to another in sheer exuberance of good feeling. If a man is so fortunate as still...