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With the results of the CRIMSON prohibition poll showing the sentiment of the University to be largely opposed to the Eighteenth Amendment as it now stands, comes an interview with Mr. Julian Codman '92, a prominent Boston lawyer, in which he decries the Volstead Act in the strongest terms. "In my opinion", says Mr. Codman, "drinking at Harvard never had any harmful effect...
...cursory observation the latest CRIMSON prohibition poll may mean practically nothing. Yet like most attempts of kindred nature throughout the country this does actually evidence a certain slow movement from the intolerance of emotional morality to the tolerance of intellectual sanity...
Every department of the University will have an opportunity to vote today in the CRIMSON poll on prohibition and on the suggestions made by the Student Council Committee on Education relative to the division of Harvard College into small colleges and the plan of holding divisional examinations in the Junior year. Polls will be open in seven places from 9 o'clock until 3 o'clock, the early closing hour being necessitated by the task of counting the votes...
...Crimson Building, Sever Hall, Harvard Hall, Austin Hall, Langdell Hall, and Building A of the Medical School will be the places where polls will be stationed. Poll-watchers, with ballots, will be at these places from 9 o'clock until 3 o'clock. Each ballot, to count in the results, must be signed. The ballots, after having been counted, will be destroyed...
...Prohibition is not a matter which primarily concerns an institution like Harvard," said Max Habicht yesterday in an interview on this subject. "Harvard students when they vote on the issue in the CRIMSON poll on Monday should bear this fact in mind. It matters very little whether the sale of alcoholic liquor is permitted here or not. Students can get it anyway, and also the student does not feel the financial drain and bad moral effect of drinking as much as the average laborer...