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...which encourages its adherents, of both sexes, to achieve spiritual relief by blurting out their sex histories at weekend "house parties" (TIME, Oct. 18, 1926). This gave the society an unsavory reputation among many outsiders. To others it seemed ridiculous. Many an undergraduate and alumnus has spattered mud, flour, beer on the allegorically righteous bronze figure of the Christian Student, which stands across the road from Murray-Dodge Hall, small brownstone. neo-Gothic citadel of the society (TIME. Dec. 2). Two facetious undergraduates once conducted a campaign for the presidency and vice presidency of the organization which was so effective...
...Henry Moeller became captain of the Lackawanna Railroad's river barges. In 1903, he became captain of tugs for the Hamburg-American Line. In 1920, he retired and went to live in Hoboken where he often sat in the back-room of Meyer's Hotel, drinking beer with other old captains. Last week he died. His daughter obeyed his request to place, under the dirty, salt-stiffened pilot coat in which Henry Moeller was buried, the purple silk umbrella which he had carried on all his voyages, short or long...
...votes Dry, drinks Dry, would raise the alcoholic content of beer...
...foreigner, Mr. Drury punctiliously avoided any mention of U. S. laws, confined his remarks to his own country's handling of Prohibition. He flayed the Ontario liquor system, whereunder twelve quarts of spirits, 120 bottles of beer, or unlimited wine, may be bought at one time in any of the Province's 327 government-licensed dispensaries. Said...
Denver Colorado April 1, Returns from a straw vote conducted at the University of Denver indicate that 516 students favor repeal of the prohibition amendment 154 favor retention of it, and 94 wish modification permitting light wines and beer...