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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fifth, very few wets will say that they want the saloon back. Why? If the present conditions are, as they say, so much worse than they were when we had saloons, why not have the saloons back? The very fact that they are unwilling to say that they want the saloon back, has a meaning. They know perfectly well that present conditions, bad as they are, are vastly better than they wore in the days of the saloon. To that extent at least prohibition is a success...
Sixth, the chief argument of the west is based on the word "can't." "Prohibition can't be enforced" is their chief stock in trade. If, even in its present state of partial enforcement, it is better that what it displaced, why not say frankly that it has done a great deal of good, but hadn't accomplished all that was expected of it. If that is not true, why are the wets so vociferous in proclaiming that they do not want the saloon back? If it is true, why not admit it frankly and then see what is next...
Henry Todd Costello, A.M. '10, Ph. D. '11, now Professor of Philosophy at Trinity College, Hartford, has been appointed Lecturer on Philosophy for the second half of the present academic year, it has been announced by University Hall. George Babcock Cressey, Ph. D. in Geology at the University of Chicago in 1923 and since then Professor of Geology at Shanghai College, Shanghai, China, is spending his sabbatical year at Harvard, and working as Research Fellow in Geology...
...scope of the repertoire of the organization. Feeling that the more important choral works have been composed for mixed voices, the leaders believe that the accomplishment of the Glee Club will be more satisfying and natural, though the number of Symphony Hall appearances has been decreased. The club will present its usual local concerts and will make several short trips. A few of the programs will be sung in conjunction with women's choruses, but the majority will be given by the Glee Club alone...
...were taken towards having a uniform code of rules and uniform officiating at amateur hockey games this winter. The rules, as they are now in operation, were explained by A. W. Prettyman, of Hamilton College, Chairman of the Intercollegiate Ice Hockey Rules Committee, following which the coaches and referees present reached a definite agreement as to the interpretation of the rules...