Word: wined
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...successive meetings the class of '87 of the Institute of Technology, has decided by very close votes, not to allow wine on the table at its first dinner, which takes place on the 22nd prox...
...were there direct opposites. Music and a spread ended the festivities. Dartmouth being a temperance college nothing but water and lemonade was sued for the toasts, and all insinuation concerning three barrels of beer and mysterious cases which the outside gossip thought might contain wine are of course perfectly false...
...others, if he would start a ground at Marylebone in secession to the ground in the White Conduit Fields, then probably being built over. Lord was a descendant of a Roman Catholic family of Yorkshire farmers who had suffered in the confiscations of 1745. About 1782 he was a wine merchant and a cricketer of great zeal and some ability. Lord, who appears to have had energy, closed with the offer, and established a ground in what is now Dorset square-not perhaps, we may opine, without some help from the Sackville interest with the owners of the Portman estate...
...societies, and other influences were too strong to be overcome by a rush, and few men joined the society, except those who were already total abstainers. These unhappy conditions continue to such an extent, that, I think, a man who sees no harm to himself in a glass of wine or a mug of beer, should sacrifice his own pleasure for the sake of influencing by his example those who are, perhaps, sacrificing their chances for even respectable success in life. But this cannot be expected from more than a very few men, as each student thinks his own influence...
Students were also not allowed to loiter on the college grounds, to attend the courts of justice, to be outside their rooms after nine P. M. or to resort to any shops in which "wine or any other drink or herba Nicotina sive Tobacco is kept for sale. The infringement of these rules was punished by imprisonment, chastisement or suspension...