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Germany drinks beer; Russia vodka; France absinthe; England ale. The obvious moral is--If you seek peace and prosperity eschew the demon rum! I do not seek to emulate Mrs. Nation--the eminently illustrious "Hatchet Carrie," nor am I an embryo Anthony Comstock. Yet I believe in total abstinence for college men. However, the question of total abstinence is not necessary for the present discussion. It is an undisputed fact that to countenance Hogarthian over-drinking at smokers and dinners is to create an undesirable impression on the outside world and particularly in the minds of parents and boys...
...weighing the pros. against the cons. as concerns beer at class "smokers," it is well to keep one point in mind: the amount of beer absorbed by the individual at a class smoker has so negligible an alcohol content that it is safe to say a man does not risk a constitutional breakdown as a result. Furthermore, an equal amount of so-called soft drinks, romping in all its effervescence through the channels of ones internal mechanism, has an effect more disastrous to the private welfare than that instigated by the four per cent. of alcohol in beer...
Accordingly, though there is a fair amount of justice in a plea for no beer, based on personal opinion, it seems rather absurd to argue the point on the basis of a wrecked constitution. HAMPDEN HALL...
...should be sufficient proof that beer is desired when not a drop remains at the end of the smokers. Have those who prefer beer ever objected to the serving of ginger ale or sarsaparilla? Yet there are some who detest both these drinks even as greatly as some detest beer...
...claim is made that beer is not necessary. Perhaps that is so, but how many members of the class would attend a smoker at which there would be no beer and no smoking? Very few would give other engagements for a smoker where drinks that are disliked compose the whole refreshment. Under the present system all are satisfied. Those who dislike beer have soft drinks, while the drinkers can have beer...