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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...very generally given to young children. Man then lived only to drink all he could all the time; the veteran soldiers and sailors of Wellington and Nelson are notorious for their drinking propensities and powers. In Berlin, at a meeting of famous naturalists and doctors, about four thousand in number, no less than fifteen thousand three hundred and eighty-two bottles of different kinds of wine were consumed, to say nothing of quantities of beer...
...Club said that there was little likelihood of war. Our foreign relations are more peaceful than they have ever been before. Arbitration is coming to be used more and more to settle disputes between nations. And even if a war should arise the addition of from three to five thousand men would make little or no difference. The position of this country as the best market for the products of European nations also lessened the chance of war; for no one quarrels with his best customer...
...hoped to secure a sum of four or five thousand dollars by a large number of small subscriptions. While the appeal for these is most naturally made to those who were Dr. Peabody's students and to those who knew him personally, it may fittingly meet with response from the undergraduates who have found here such pleasant memories...
...Chicago concert was the crowning success of the whole trip. An audience of over two thousand completely filled the Central Music Hall and gave the clubs as hearty a welcome as they have ever received. Every number was encored and Wilder made even a greater hit than he had ever done before. The audience, in the last number, were apparently determined not to let him go until he had exhausted his repertoire and it was not until he had been called back nine or ten times that the applause died down so that the Glee Club could start "Fair Harvard...
...well aware that due allowance should always be made for natural exuberance of spirits after a well-earned victory, but when liberty becomes license, when victory means subsequent behavior that brings shame and disgrace upon the name of Fair Harvard, then victory is a thousand times worse than honorable defeat, and it is time for every one of her sons, old and young, to rise and protest...