Word: illicit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...party has made great strides since 1884. They have gained local option and the passage of a bill authorizing instruction in public schools on the prohibition question from a scientific standpoint. Mr. Green, '89, was second on the affirmative. He said that total prohibition was impossible. There are many illicit distilleries in the South which will be sure to increase under a prohibitory law as they have increased under high license. Mr. D. C. Torrey then spoke ably for the negative. He referred to Nebraska and Iowa. Nebraska with high license has a steady increase of crime. Iowa has total...
...neighborhood - or offer cups for contests between building and building, say? That there is energy enough in the college for this is shown by the interest taken in the scrub games of base-ball last year. This year, during almost every foot-ball match, there was a small illicit game going on in some corner of the field...
...case of the boat races, exhortation is necessary, but the result is the same. A greater or less number of students abandon their proper pursuits in search of excitement which is unwholesome per se, and add to their car fares and hotel bills the price of amusement, licit or illicit, during the nights they spend in a strange city away from their usual resources and their usual restraints. That in many cases the "visiting student's" purse is further depleted by wagers lost on the game in question must be believed...