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Other Cases Decided. Terence Druggan, convicted beer-legger of Chicago, appealed for a writ of habeas corpus to escape jail on the grounds that the Volstead Act was illegal because it had passed before the 18th Amendment was ratified. Justice Holmes read the Court's opinion sustaining the Act, declaring: "No reason has been suggested why the Constitution may not have given Congress a present power to enact laws intended to carry out constitutional provisions for the future when the time comes for them to take effect...
...replaced John Watts '28 at stroke, as the latter has stopped rowing for the present on account of poor health. Canning's former seat at number 2 was taken by J. W. Dunlop '28. C. H. Pfortzheimer '28 coxed the first crew yesterday in place of W. E. Beer '28, who shifted temporarily to the second eight...
...indeed, less wine and less beer are drunk but more of fancy Oriental herbs [plus orientalium herbarum decoratarum] and more of coffee, which all too often, perchance to the detriment of study and discipline, our young men and women consume in the morning hours in the city shops. And it must be confessed we older men mourn the becoming dress of our contemporaries when we see our students adorned with clothes of various colors and actually wearing trousers which, by the ambitious latitude in their fullness, are more barbarian than any which the Dacians or Sarmatians wore...
...first boat, leaving the seating as follows: Stroke, Robert Winthrop '26, captain; 7, Kent Leavitt '26; 6. J. P. Hubbard '26; 5, Geoffrey Platt '27; 4, C. F. Darlington '26; 3, J. R. Barry '27; 2, Donald Murchie '28; bow, J. H. Perkins '27; cox, W. E. Beer '26. Seating in the other boats remains unchanged...
First Crew--Stroke, Robert Winthrop '26, Captain; 7, Kent Leavitt '26; 6, J. P. Hubbard '26; 5, Geoffrey Platt '27; 4, C. F. Darlington '26; 3, J. R. Barry '27; 2, J. W. Dunlop '28; bow, J. H. Perkins '27; cox., W. E. Beer...