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...meeting in Sanders, Thursday evening, in which Mr. Roosevelt spoke, seems to me to contain in itself the solution of the evil which he strove to point out and cure. It is this: that the way to cure the lack of unity and enthusiasm in the student body here, is to bring together the whole College in just such meetings as that of Thursday and stir up enthusiasm...
...business-like or compelling manner. A generation ago when the graduates wanted anything, they made themselves heard on the matter and advanced their demands in a body in the form of petitions, which were usually granted. The condition of our (mud) walks we declare abominable and possible of easy cure; the courses in English literature, IX, VII. and others which masquerade under the name "half" course, are preposterous; a chair in Russian Literature we should all very much like to see here at Harvard. Yet it must be admitted that on these several points, as on a hundred others...
...reserve must be kept up. Such a system constantly threatens the country with financial panics, as we have seen during the last three or four years. The gentleman (Youngman), advocated the retirement of a certain amount of these notes. This would only be a temporary relief. The only cure is to remove the legal tender notes entirely. By this means the danger of a deficit in the gold reserve would be forever avoided...
...Wines then considered these evils as they are related to the social institutions of the family, the government and property; and he then described the means of prevention and cure. In conclusion he dwelt especially on the need of organization in this work...
Alcohol is worthless both as a food and as a medicine. It is true that the medical profession is responsible for much of the drunkenness of today. One celebrated physician has said that he could cure more diseases by prescribing total abstinence for one year than by ordinary practice for one hundred years. It is also well known that Baron Liebig said that there is as much nourishment in the quantity of flour that would lie on the point of a table knife as there is in eight pints of beer...