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...distinctly wet tone of the National Collegiate Prohibition Poll establishes the first actual evidence of undergraduate sentiment on the Eighteenth Amendment. While the Poll is in no sense complete, it definitely replaces popular legend with statistics, at the same time presenting one entirely new aspect to the whole discussion of legal restrictions to drinking...
...theory as well as in practice. But the vote goes further than confirming this suspicion. It turns its attention to the men who do not drink and proves very positively that it is not respect for the law but personal taste that guides them. In this aspect the poll brings the weight of fact to the old contention that legislation is without effect in such moral and personal issues as the use of alcohol. Undergraduates drink if they choose to drink; even those who abstain flout the Constitution in principle if not in actual deed...
...returns of the Prohibition Poll indicate that the net result of the attempt of the older generation to solve its liquor problem has been a new problem which younger hands must someday unravel. Legislation of the Volstead Act and Jones Law calibre is no way out of the alcohol tangle. 24,000 college men and women in eighteen different colleges have examined. Prohibition and found it wanting...
...Monday's poll of the College which totaled 1200 votes was augmented by another 1200 cast yesterday in sever, Harvard, and Pierce Halls. Approximately 600 ballots were filled out in the Business School yesterday, 400 at Law School, and 300 at the Medical School...
Present indications are that, despite the impossibility of reaching many of the Graduate Schools at Harvard, the poll will nevertheless represent more than 50 per cent of the whole University, an average much higher than that usually gained in political elections throughout the country...