Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Prohibition Association. This sharpeyed organization has seized upon the figures which were printed in so many papers last year, estimating Harvard's drink bill at more than her book bill, and has drawn the obvious and mistaken conclusion that Harvard fails to realize the "retarding and deteriorating effect of alcohol." The estimate really allows each student about five cents a day for alcoholic beverages. But the point that the story best illustrates is the staying quality of a good college news item. It has already been with us a year...
...editors pay their respects to the Polo Club, the lecture system, the assistants in English A, and the buyers of printed notes. Two of the five prose articles attack in the good old way weak spots in our methods of instruction, and one shows how alcohol gradually drowns college ideals. Of the two poems, the longer may be called academic...