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...reform, Now when the dramatic evidence is on the other side of the question, women are no less eager to have a finger in the controversial pie. Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, leader of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform, stated last Wednesday that in her opinion a poll such as conducted by Yale's "Daily News" would find a similar hostility to Prohibition in any girls' college in the country. Mrs. Sabin seems to suggest that either the young women of America have acquired a taste for light wines and beer or have developed an eagerness...
...claims of Mrs. Sabin who numbers sixty thousand women in an organization so far without a membership drive are modest beside Mrs. Peabody's twelve million strong for reform. In spite of this apparent one-sidedness, a poll in women's colleges would furnish more vital statistics as to where this body of public opinion might swing in the future and would produce more interest in the unbiased survey of the Prohibition question...
...definite attempt to discover the feeling of the colleges throughout the country on the drinking question will be made next Monday and Tuesday when a poll will be taken in at least 20 institutions. The results will be tabulated by the CRIMSON and simultaneously released to all colleges holding polls by Thursday of next week...
...poll of the students in Yale and in the Sheffield Scientific School conducted yesterday by the Yale Daily News showed a 5 to 1 sentiment in favor of repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment, and indicated that about three quarters of the Elis drink. It was also shown that drinking is more prevalent in the senior than in the freshman year, and that hard liquor is the most popular...
Dartmouth sentiment upon the vital issues, wine, women, and song, crystallized in the annual senior preference poll, shows some unexpected results. The gentile old fashioned atmosphere which has enveloped Hanover ever since a certain young lady who wore curls and shuddered at the sight of cigarettes found herself Dartmouth's Carnival Queen has been rudely dispelled by an emphatic vote of approval for brown eyes, black hair, and "speed" of an unspecified amount from Dartmouth seniors. A public led by impressionistic journalists to believe that a demure Dartmouth student body picks its feminine ideals out of Cooper's novels...