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...theme is a well worn, and well hacked one. We now need no argument for it. All are agreed on the first point, at least-that drunkenness is an evil, and an evil that all should seek to avoid. Traffic, or provision in any way encouraging drunkenness, should be discouraged. But people object, and say that there is no sin in moderate drink-Dr. Crosby has even said that temperance is more manly than total abstinence; the temperate man is the manly man, the total abstainer the coward, and the excessive user the beast. The man who can drink...
...less than Harvard. Even if our crew did cost less than the Yale crew, that is no argument that there may not be extravagancies existing which it would be well to get rid of. Let them have spend money for beds which they need, and not for blazers...
Students of Harvard College need not make written application for tickets to the lectures to be given by Mr. Dougherty, and Mr. Irving. Mr. Jones will announce a time when he will meet students by classes, and distribute tickets to those desiring them...
...English literature, and to be unable to write English decently. As to the conditions of life, the questions of political economy and the like, which are of absolute importance to any one who wants to understand the social world in which he is living, there is not the slightest need that he should ever have mastered the rudiments of them...
Every junior ought to make a special effort to be present at the coming class dinner. Those who remember the enjoyable dinner of last year ought certainly to need no further urging to make them sign the book at Bartlett's. Aside from all considerations of mere conviviality, however, the men of eighty-six should spare no efforts to make a success of the dinner, if for no other reason than that it has been several years since a junior class has met with anything but failure in its attempts to hold a class dinner...