Word: sentimentality
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...additional cooperation of three newly announced college polls on prohibition, the launching of several midwestern debating programs on the subject, and the preparation for a simultaneous release of voting results from more than a score of universities indicate that college sentiment on the Eighteenth Amendment, will reach its peak next week...
Lafayette and Amherst College are conducting the balloting under the auspices of the student newspapers of the two colleges, while the Colgate maroon will sponsor a poll similar to the CRIMSON's in order to determine the prohibition sentiment at that institution...
...unfortunate that there are no statistics showing the extent of drinking in the university during past years. The News referendums of 1924 and 1926 concerned themselves with sounding out undergraduate sentiment on the Eighteenth Amendment, but did not attempt to investigate the amount of drinking. The only figures available for comparison, therefore, are those from senior questionnaires in Yale, Harvard, and Princeton. These indicate an extremely slight decrease in drinking at Yale between 1906 and 1920. After 1920 there are no figures. No one knows, however, whether this decrease occurred because of, in spite of, or without reference to prohibition...
...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...
...sentiment, not for gold, Soprano Dux-Swift was soloist at last week's Swift concert, given as usual at Orchestra Hall under Conductor David Alva Clippinger. The house, packed with Chicago socialites, long and loudly applauded her, demanded and got five encores. Another feature was the first performance of Outward Bound, Swift-prize-winning chorus composed by Franz Bornschein to a poem by Catherine Parmenter. Composer Bornschein, no Swift employe, has three times won the annual $100 prize. Honorable mention this year was awarded to Abram Moses of Baltimore and Gustav Mehner of Grove City...