Word: total
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...small but appreciative audience welcomed Gen. Swift in Sever Hall last evening. "I have discovered," he said no noting the size of the audience, "that it is possible, even in an address before a total abstinence society, to have too much cold water. The speaker opened his address by an allusion to the meeting held yesterday in Tremont Temple in memory of Wendell Phillips, where thousands of people hung on the lips of the orator of the occasion. Two years ago Wnedell Phillips delivered his last public speech. It was directed to the educated men of the country, in behalf...
...speaker next dwelt on the severity of the tests to which men professedly devoted to total abstinence are sometimes put. Theses trials must be looked for by those who depart from the ordinary tenets of the age. As Emerson expressed it, "There has never yet been found an easy way to perform heroic conduct." The lecturer recommended Summer's advice to Stanton, "stick...
However, it does seem as though those men in college who are total abstainers should be willing, yes, anxious to stand by their colors, and increase by their names the popularity of that principle which they believe they are themselves profiting...
Another reason for joining the movement is the fact that the membership of the league is taken as the strength of total abstinence sentiment at Harvard. The number of members has been constantly increasing, until now it is nearly 90, a fair showing, perhaps, but far less than it ought...
...another column we present a communication on the subject of the Total Abstinence League. As our correspondent suggests, the size of this society is by no means a fair representation of the sentiment of the college on this subject. Many persons who really are in accord with the objects of the society, both in feeling and practice, fail to join, either from a feeling that any pledge on such a subject is objectionable or because they do not care enough about the matter to take the necessary trouble. Still the tendency of the society is a good...