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Four more communications on the beer question--selected from some dozens--are printed in today's issue. With these letters, the argument seems to have been given sufficient space in the CRIMSON, and those desiring further discussion are referred to the Forum which will be held on the subject soon after the mid-years...
...Revolutionists," I beg to make reply to the letter in yesterday's CRIMSON upholding drinking at class smokers. The writer asks--"Have those who prefer beer ever objected to the serving of ginger ale or sarsaparilla"? Let me suggest that the men who drink beer never have any excuse for objecting to their soft-drink neighbors. In many cases, the compliment cannot be returned. He then asks--"How many members of the class would attend a smoker at which no beer was served"? If a man has so little class spirit, that he will not come to a smoker unless...
...must be taken as a matter of course. All reforms are at first regarded with disfavor by the majority. Finally, I would say that the "Revolutionists," in common with the upholders of the present system, desire fellowship and sociability at the meetings, but we believe that the serving of beer is an artificial and unnecessary way in which to secure conditions of congeniality. L. BRENTANO...
Does not the question of beer at class smokers call for a little more discrimination than some of your correspondents have employed...
...protest against the beer are not engaged in a vigorous attempt to keep from drinking it themselves. They could do that without all these letters. Obviously they are trying to reform their neighbors, and to force all the members of the University to share their own abstemiousness. Granting that beer is harmful, there would remain some question of the wisdom of this proceeding in a University that attempts to train men for a life where most people are necessarily run by themselves and not by various self appointed supervisors...