Word: prohibitionist
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...students assembled last night in Sever 11, to hear Dr. Lyman Abbott's address to the Total Abstinence league. Dr. Abbott stated in the beginning that he had a great dislike to speak on temperance questions, and a greater dislike to refuse to speak; that he was not a prohibitionist; that he denied the right of any man or body of men to prescribe to any other man or body of men what they should or should not eat, drink or wear. There are several undisputed facts which bear on the temperance problem. First, alcohol and distilled liquors are poisonous...
...voting by proxy. The boxes will be open for voters today and tomorrow. Every member of the university is eligible to vote. The result of the mock election will be awaited with a good deal of interest. No one should fail to vote, be he a Republican, Democrat or Prohibitionist, and the earlier the better...
...notoriously the custom of college men to take a Horatian and liberal view of life in as far as relates to pleasures of the cup. But intemperance, we rest assured, has always been as emphatically condemned by the college community as could be desired by the most ardent prohibitionist. That there has of late years been an observable tendency to a too great laxity of public opinion in this respect is perhaps the case ; and it may be that public sentiment needs to be reinforced and strengthened in the matter. If so, it is time that a decided stand...