Word: rum
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...enormous profanation of the holy name of Almighty God. And he demeaned himselfe so that the president and fellows conceived great hopes that he will not be lost." Some time afterwards we come across the painful fact that three men were "publickly admonished in Ye Hall for drinking rum (forbidden by ye college laws) in ye college, and for making disorderly noises in ye college at or near midnight...
...that the ways of students there are wonderfully free. Witnesses swore that boys of ten to twelve drink and smoke; "that some little fellows had pipes in their months all day long, and would frequently stagger into the class-room in a state of intoxication;" that the fumes of rum and tobacco were strong in the hall, and that one lad had an attack of delirium tremens...
Liquor is what makes all the "potenteries;" a rum-seller can never be a happy man. John don't drink, and he says he's respected by all the students. He is now 48, and he "may live a dozen years yet." When he dies, he is "going home...
WILL I take a ticket to the Philosophical Club's Chamber Concerts on Physiology, - "a subject at once useful and interesting"? No! I won't take a ticket, and I won't let any one else, and I'm going to prosecute you and the Philosophical Club and the Rum Club and the Society of Naturals. It's shameful that such organizations should exist! They drive me crazy! I've been to readings, concerts, lectures, and consultations in Sever, Harvard, Boylston, and University for five months now, and the end must be near. What man has done...
...Rum to a Science...