Word: pint
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...extent of the Faculty's power) of total abstinence? Our climate may not make ale or cider necessary for all, but illness certainly makes it helpful to some, and a friend of ours was advised by a physician on the Corporation to take, as the very best tonic, a pint of porter daily at dinner. At the Hall this is forbidden. We would trouble no man's conscience, and while there are among us those brought up in the "most straitest sect of the Puritans," we shall not lack warnings of the danger of opinions such as we have expressed...