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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Prohibition is defended on moral grounds, and to a certain degree these arguments carry weight. Distilled liquors are most harmful to the health and morals of the population and three manufacture should be forbidden. But the bad effects of beer and light wines are very slight. These good effects consist in making a great number of people contented. On narrow dogmatic moral grounds absolute prohibition is right. On those of expediency and common sense absolute prohibition is wrong, and should not be tolerated to go into effect July 1. Were the country given a few months delay such a movement...
...liberties of other people, as it subjects them to definite inconveniences and restraints, if not sufferings. Even the man who becomes passively drunk, quite apart from harming himself, is cheating society out of his usefulness. It is all very well to say that free government is better than good government, and that prohibition is an infringement of private liberty. But when liberty has become to a large extent license, and that license is of a type to stunt and inhibit progress by destroying the effectiveness of a definite number of human beings in each generation, it is the clear duty...
Coach Haines is getting in trim for a comp race with Mather Abbott, the Yale coach, a week from tomorrow. The crews are looking forward with great interest to this event, as each crew would consider a victory by its coach as a good omen. F. L. Higginson '00 of the Graduate Rowing Committee arrived at Red Top today...
Most conspicuous of all the defects in American journalism has been the lack of a good sane weekly journal of politics and general discussion. The "Nation" and the "New Republic" in turn threatened to fill the gap, wavered, and finally degenerated into radical slander out of which it is now difficult to discover any real constructive criticism...
...recognition of the country. It promises to afford a meeting ground for ideas, and to promote discussion. It reminds us, at a time when the world seems too likely to forget, that, after all, it matters little whether we are conservatives or liberals so long as we are good conservatives and good liberals...