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...Sargent lectures this afternoon at 2 o'clock in Sever 11, special subject: "Reproduction...
Prof. Goodale gives today the first lecture of a series to be given at the rooms of the Boston Natural History Society. The lecture begins at 11 A. M.; subject, "Food of Plants and Animals...
...little work, which bears upon this subject and furnishes some very interesting statistics, has just been brought out by an Englishman, Mr. A. A. Reade. It is entitled "Study and Stimulants." The author has taken pains to collect personal opinions and experiences from men distinguished in literature and science, and has thereby arrived at conclusions which cannot fail to be serviceable to all brain workers. These conclusions are as follows: 1. That alcohol and tobacco are of no value to a healthy student. 2. That the most vigorous thinkers and hardest workers abstain from both stimulants. 3. That those...
...there follows the testimony of almost all the prominent authors and scholars of the world, from W. D. Howells to Victor Hngo, on the subject of the use of stimulants and tobacco. Many approve of a moderate use of both. None of those quoted, however, resort to alcohol as a habitual stimulus to thought. And many yet abjure the use of both alcohol and tobacco. Their combined testimony, however, cannot fail to be of use to any student in forming his opinions on a matter so vexed and disputed as the question of total abstinence and temperance at present...
...shade the reform of the tariff or of the civil service. Intemperance is the greatest evil in existence as regards society and the state. It is the chief obstacle to the extermination of ignorance and pauperism. The question of temperance is no namby-pamby affair, no goody goody subject. It is a great question of political economy, of history, of ethics, of decency, of the purity of politics, of the preservation of the state, and of the preservation of the character of mankind...