Word: needed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...public meeting of the Total Abstinence League was held last evening in Sever 11, with an audience that was very good for Friday. Prof. F. G. Peabody was the first speaker. He spoke particularly of the work of the Law and Order League in Cambridge. He dwelt on the need of unity in all reforms and of united forces against common enemies. The need was felt in Cambridge, and finally a league was formed, merely for the enforcement of the laws relating to the liquor traffic. This league included men who were prohibitionists, licencists, extremists, moderatists, Democats and Republicans...
...instance law, will first be found general works on the subject, arranged, under sub-heads, by authors alphabetically. Then would come groups, such as dictionaries, periodicals, society reports, etc., containing articles on both special and general subjects. Next come special works, arranged either as a branch-if there is need of further sub-division, in which case the name of the particular branch is placed on the same line as the main heading-or simply as a section, when there is no sub-division required. The following will illustrate this principle, each group under law representing a separate card...
...then raise up the college papers, let us give them the aid they need, and in their success recognize the proportionate success of our university...
...this is rather an after thought; at that time it did not seem at all peculiar. I had all my usual perceptions about me. I saw everything that was in the room, heard what the children were saying, felt the warmth of the fire. What was the need of a body? True I could not move; but, in such pleasant surroundings, I was well content to stay where I was. So, in fact, it was not until I thought of exercising the American prerogative, and putting my feet on the fender, that I found out my corporeal insufficiency...
...necessary law, the future is itself equally fixed and immutable. Why then, it may be said, should we waste effort in trying to accomplish that which, if not settled already, can never come about? If all things spring necessarily from the seeds sown in the beginning, what need is there that we should till the field of life with our labor or water it with our tears? Let us watch and be patient! we shall reap as much as if we worked. But this is not an inevitable conclusion; on the contrary, that very law which decrees that all things...