Word: drunkenesse
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Drunkeness a Crime
"Next to killing, stealing, and lying, drunkeness is the worst vice known to civilization. Aside from those three nothing so quickly destroys dependability and effective organization of effort, which is the basis of civilization. The only question is whether the evil can be controlled as well in another way. I...
"Prohibition has reduced drunkeness to a great extent among the majority of the people who formerly frequented the corner saloons. I am unable to see as striking a difference in the University. There is, as a matter of fact, not as much obvious drunkeness as there was 20 years ago...
"Drinking has, however, been steadily decreasing during the course of the last 100 years. Fifty years ago drunkeness was not uncommon at regular class banquets, and the common meeting places of such groups as the boards of the college publications were the saloons. In 1818, 60 years farther back, the...
"Drunkeness has apparently increased at Princeton, Harvard, and Yale," declared the New York Times in a recent editorial.