Word: wining
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...unanimous vote of the Yale faculty, all students were forbidden the use of wine, beer and intoxicating beverages of all kinds in New Haven...
...recent 250th anniversary at Exeter, free wine and beer flowed in the streets, and by a special act of the town council no arrests were made for drunkenness...
...companies take cognizance of a man's habits in drink. The total abstainer obtains better terms than the moderate drinker. The question of total abstinence is answered, and there is no longer any discussion upon the subject that adds anything new. We can tolerate elderly men who take their wine, for they were brought up under an old regime, but there is no excuse for a young man who drinks. After dwelling upon the injurious effects of alcohol upon the heart, and so on the whole organism, the desirability of "no-license" was advocated, for it must be wrong...
...only, tho' I think with a great degree of probability; for I am sure it will be impossible for us to remain here during the winter. For you can not look a man in the face without a dollar, board four dollars a week, candles one-half pr. lb., wine and rum which we have quite done with, the one 14s, the other 10s. pr. bottle, and everything in propotion, and continually rising; to what height I can't tell, but I hope they will have a Confounded Fall by and by." This to his "Honour'd Mamma...
...Public Orator at Cambridge has written an address of congratulation in Latin, to Harvard University, on the 250th anniversary of the latter's foundation. At a wine party recently held at Trinity College it was unanimously and hilariously decided that the Undergraduates of England ought to send greeting to the Undergraduates of America at the same time. The following address was at once drawn...