Word: effected
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There are few cocktail-sippers among typical undergraduates. Those who drink do so not for the pleasure, but for the effect. It is the grand deflance of their abundant youth towards disaster. It is much as a rich man may throw away pennies, knowing that pennies make riches, but confident of the abundance of his resources...
...unusually large number of men have declared their intentions of abstaining during the war. We do not wish to urge a resolution so unalterable against a man's own conscience. Yet the effect by example would be tremendous on the philistine world. It would serve as a mark for those to whom abstinence would require the breaking of a habit rather than the denial of a sporadic amusement...
...they should be made sober. Moreover, the cost of food is, and will be, very great, so that no man should be permitted to spend on liquor the money needed for the sustenance of his family. Let us take to heart the word that comes from Russia to the effect that the savings in her banks have increased more than twenty-fold since the prohibition of the sale of vodka in spite of the terrible cost...
...draft bill, so bitterly fought in Congress, and made a law only against the uproarious dissent of various peace advocates and upholders of the national honor, seems already to have worked some large effect, although not one conscript has been called to the front, nor one single boy been torn away from the cherishing arms of his mother...
...uncertainty which now surrounds the future of the summer training camp has had an unfortunate and unwarranted effect on enrolments. Many men are waiting placidly for that final and improbable word from Washington which will definitely assure the glorious military future of whosoever attends the camp...