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Typical of these broad generalities implying that Prohibition is the salvation of modern American society, is Dr. Alfred Worcester's statement at the New England Health Institute that drinking at Harvard, regardless of the implications of the Prohibition poll, has declined since pre-Volstead days. The poll results were not intended to be regarded as a bibulous boast, but simply as a frank indication of college opinion on the feasibility of Prohibition. Possibly drinking has declined at Harvard, as Dr. Worcester asserts, but there is no way of substantiating the statement. The results of the poll certainly indicate that liquor...
...Creighton University the Crimson forces lost the debate, speaking on the Harvard Debating Council Plan, although there was a substantial vote in their favor. At Loyola University debating "Complete Disarmament" the two judges split and the deciding vote was left to the audience. Ballots for this poll are still coming in, and as yet no result has been reached. Alonzo Stagg, Chicago football coach was there to ask about the efficiency of the plan. Since Rockford College is solely for women the Harvard speakers matched arguments with a team of women in a no-decision encounter...
Returns from prohibition polls continue to roll in. About 20 college and university dailies have conducted these surveys, and most of the results coincide with those of the national poll being conducted by the Literary Digest; the nation, these straws seem to show, is not satisfied with alcohol legislation as it now exists...
...feel, however, that a poll could produce dependable statistics upon the extent of drinking, and we do not propose to conduct one at Wisconsin. We believe that the duty of the congressional committee, if it is to call itself an intelligent and impartial and truly idealistic body, is first to determine the present extent of drinking by some absolute and uncontrovertible scale, as the consumption of grain, or juniper extract, or grapes; second, to investigate statistics of crime, poverty, accidents and the like, but refusing to accept the statistics offered either by anti-saloon leagues or by anti-prohibition committees...
Granted that there are two sides to this question it must, however, be acknowledged that there is some basis for this effort at getting reliable prohibition statistics when the purpose that prompted this action is examined. The object of the CRIMSON'S prohibition poll was to crystalize student opinion on prohibition. That it did. It may be that some of the votes were cast in devil-may-care attitude but when 24,000 college students speak out there is a tone of seriousness accompanying the facts. The paper from Wisconsin states that if the number of drinkers and non-drinkers...