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Urbana, Illinois, April 1. In a ballot of nearly 4000 students at the University of Illinois 2134 favored modification of liquor laws, 1003 strict enforcement, 481 repeal and 209 the present situation. Twenty-one hundred and five admitted drinking, and of these 738 confessed to drunkenness...
...Remember the age of college men in interpreting this poll," T. N. Carver, David Wells Professor of Political Economy cautioned a CRIMSON reporter. "Undergraduates range in age roughly from 18 to 25. In 1920 when the country was very 'dry' as a result of strict war-time prohibition, the undergraduate must have been between 8 and 15 years old. Hence those who voted on Tuesday and Wednesday formed their first impressions of the liquor situation at the exact period which wets choose as a starting point for their misleading statistics. By way of illustration, in 1911 there were somewhat more...
...commemoration of William Jennings Bryan and the principles for which he fought, Bryan University is growing in Dayton, Tennessee, the town which recognizes no simian heritage. It is assumed that a University so dedicated will guide its curriculum according to strict fundamentalist standards. The idea, if carried out, contains many possibilities, not only for Dayton's youth, but for all other colleges as well. In this day of scientific specialization and general stiffening of course requirements, the undergraduate is kept entirely too busy. If a firm belief in the principles of fundamentalism were to spread in University circles, college courses...
...drunk? Yes 653 358 267 103 1431 No 630 253 225 106 1214 Principle reasons for abstinence Legal restrictions 55 5 10 0 70 Family 96 6 12 4 118 Personal taste 635 87 68 29 819 Do you favor: Present Prohibition situation 37 8 12 10 67 Strict Enforcement 364 65 68 32 529 Modification of present Laws 774 370 351 139 1634 Total repeal of liquor legislation 561 264 157 62 1044 Do you favor the Harvard Debating Council plan...
...Debating Council plan provides strict enforcement in every state where public sentiment wants and supports it, while it leaves the states untouched where public sentiment is opposed to enforcement, except in that it prohibits the operation of the saloon and favors the teaching of temperance...