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...Graduate Schools were the chief source of strength for the dry element. As at Harvard the graduates went on record in favor of rigorous enforcement, although the beer and light wine proposal found many adherents...
...ballot was worded it militated against the success of the wets by not offering them any proposition on which they could unite their forces. Even the light wine and beer proposition failed to attract a good many wets who had voted for repeal...
Prohibition in Norway always excepted beer and whiskey. And brandy could be bought on a doctor's certificate. During the past year the law was altered to permit importation of light wines under Government monopoly. This alteration was made because of threats by France, Spain and Portugal to render void all trade agreements with Norway. These countries had previously exported vast quantities of wine to Norway...
...again the mood of melancholy surges up-it is never very deep below the surface-and Fish draws three lovely veiled figures in black and silver for another wine-cup stanza, now of an elegiac turn...
After all, individualism, the marked absence of standardization, is the "note" of Harvard. Customs and "values" may change. The undergraduate may come to venerate a Phi Beta Kappa key as much as his father venerates his safe deposit or even his wine-cellar key. Mr. Lamont looks forward to the culminat hour when "a member of the Phi Beta "Kappa Society is more honored among "all men than a member of the victorious football eleven." On that day what a business the Boston department stores will be doing in ascension robes...