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...exceptions, I have found no man, woman or child who drinks, brews, smuggles, purchases, sells or distributes any form of alcoholic liquor. These enormous dry circles appear to me to represent the climax of normal civilized growth. Those who still crave alcohol must acquire self-discipline before they attain the civilized standard. For them Prohibition is necessary...
...national concern, is the position that students who will be the nucleus of the nation's affairs ten years from now, should carry their interests into fields beyond the academic hot-house. The production of a race of scholars is the best that the former policy can hope to attain; the spreading of a more liberal principle of education and a more practical use of it in shaping the affairs of men is the be-all and end-all of the latter view. Whether or not the eagerness of the budding rulers of the nation leads them to premature...
...will not join with the CRIMSON in its anti-Volstead crusade. The reason for not taking part in the movement is not that we disapprove of the object which the CRIMSON desires to attain. We believe, however, that a college newspaper exists for two purposes: to bring news items of general college interest to the students and to influence campus opinion as much as may be possible on topics pertaining to college. The discussion of national problems can find no legitimate place in the columns of the News-Letter or in any other college sheet except those published by certain...
Until the magazine achieves a creditable circulation report so that it may "equitably set a rate," it will carry no advertising. Because its usefulness is strictly limited to members of the profession, Publishers' Service may never attain more than 7,000 readers...
President Hoover did not have to be told by Capt. Allen Buchanan, his naval aide and conference adviser in Florida, that limitation so high that the U. S. might have to spend half a billion dollars on new ships to attain its quota strength was not the reduction of naval armaments the President had first publicly set his heart...