Word: matters
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Marion, Cora, and I took it all very meekly, - a matter of course...
...anonymous author of "Debating" says, that in this matter we are "stubborn as mules." Let us beware, lest in trying to avoid the "sophomoric" and "claptrap," we err on the other side, and be charged with possessing some other undesirable qualities, besides stubbornness, of the above-mentioned animal...
...views of a man's associates. Moreover, the most earnest efforts are often misconstrued by rigid supporters of the pledge and prohibition. For this reason people of attainments and culture are disposed to be shy of the subject; they prefer to be silent, as if it was solely a matter of taste, not of right and wrong...
Harvard men have the good fortune to be free from all interference of the instructors in regard to this matter. At other colleges it is different. At Amherst, at the beginning of the present college year, Dr. Hitchcock, the supervisor of the physical education of the students, caused to be circulated in the Freshman class a paper by which all who signed were bound to neither smoke nor drink. Such a proceeding here would seem absurd. Few would sign; those who did would be influenced far more by their previous prejudices or a desire to oblige, than by a belief...
...moderate use. In those districts of France where meat is a rarity, on feast days the tables overflow with it. Course after course of it is brought on, and the guests eat to satiety. So it is in the United States with wines. It is in consequence a matter of regret that people do not more generally sanction the use of wine on the table and at home. No longer than because it was unusual, or because it was said to be wicked, would people insist on taking too much...