Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...addresses this evening, by Prof. Peabody and Hon. L. Edwin Dudley, will be on the working of the Law and Order League. Prof. Peabody has been active in the work in Cambridge, while Mr. Dudley has a national reputation for a vigorous enforcement of the liquor laws. All who wish to know what the liquor laws are, how they are enforced, and what the Law and Order League has done in the United States, should attend this meeting, at Sever...
...order to check the growing intemperance among the students, the faculty of Lafayette college have commenced proceedings against several liquor dealers on the charge of selling to minors...
...takes up in a rational manner such subjects as insanity, explaining the exaggerations of those fanatics who always charge this disease to intemperance and showing that their position is largely a false one. Beer is favorhat their position is largely a false one. Beer is favorably contrasted with distilled liquors by tables of statistics collected from all parts of the world. The book is one of considerable interest, and is a valuable contribution to the liquor discussions of the present time...
...evils known to civilized nations, and is, moreover, the foundation of a great part of the other evils. In Europe, where formerly nobody got drunk because everybody drank, the cry is arising in almost every country, both on account of drunkenness, and on account of the adulteration of liquors France herself has become frightened and from an analysis of 1700 samples of what was sold as pure liquor, only 60 were found unadulterated...
...refusal to drink less odd than an invitation, great good would have accrued to our college. There can be no doubt that it would be a great gain to the students as a body to give up entirely during the college course, the use of every sort of liquor. In the four years which a man spends in college he is far more likely to fall into fatal habits of excess than in any other period of his life...