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Tabulation of the CRIMSON's poll of University sentiment on prohibition shows that the Harvard Debating Council's plan for the repeal of enforcement legislation was sustained by a count of 873-868, and not defeated by a margin of five votes, as stated in yesterday's CRIMSON...
...canvas of the faculty on a small scale indicated that the CRIMSON's move to make collegiate opinion on the liquor question a known quantity is looked on with approval, but that opinions differ as to the inferences to be drawn from the recently concluded poll...
...Certainly the poll can do no one any harm." Albert Bushnell Hart '80, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government Emeritus, told a CRIMSON reporter, "and it is of use to know how many of your neighbors think with you. But I must say that my reaction to the results of the balloting is a keen disappointment in seeing that college men are not willing to forego the doubtful pleasure of becoming 'tight' in order that the community as a whole may benefit...
...afraid the poll shows that there is more drinking now than when I was an undergraduate. I knew personally almost every man in my class of 250, and very few of them had the reputation of being 'soaks...
...Remember the age of college men in interpreting this poll," T. N. Carver, David Wells Professor of Political Economy cautioned a CRIMSON reporter. "Undergraduates range in age roughly from 18 to 25. In 1920 when the country was very 'dry' as a result of strict war-time prohibition, the undergraduate must have been between 8 and 15 years old. Hence those who voted on Tuesday and Wednesday formed their first impressions of the liquor situation at the exact period which wets choose as a starting point for their misleading statistics. By way of illustration, in 1911 there were somewhat more...