Word: alcoholized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chaste Colonial premises of the Yale Divinity School will be occupied for six weeks this summer by the first session of Yale's new School of Alcohol Studies. Guiding spirit of the school is Yale's witty Dr. Howard Wilcox Haggard (TIME, June 29), professor of applied physiology, prominent U.S. exponent of the thesis that alcohol should be considered as calmly and scientifically as steam or potatoes...
About 75 students (selected from four times that number of applicants) will hear Dr. Haggard, who has dispassionately written of both inebriety and teetotalitarianism. Haggard points to alcohol's good points ("the safest of all sedatives") and gives scientific reasons for tolerating an occasional cocktail or schooner of beer. Besides Haggard, the school will have 20 lecturers. Students will include clergymen, probation officers, school administrators, teachers, welfare workers. Typical accepted student is Michigan's Liquor Control Commission's research director, Lawrence McCracken...
Both Centaur and the Food & Drug Administration were stumped to find the guilty emetic. Company chemists analyzed a sample of Castoria, found only what was to be expected in a compound of alcohol, senna extract, bicarbonate of soda, peppermint, anise and flavoring. But when the chemists confidently took a swig, they presently upchucked...
...sheen you yearsh. Howzsh yer ulcer? Have a drink." The foregoing bit of tipsy doodle is an awfully good facsimile of typical convesation between two Old Blue Grads, when a quarter of a century has passed and the first graduating class of the Yale University School of Alcohol Studies convenes, with glasses raised on sly, for a reunion...
Those who are proficient at putting two and two together will say that there is something Significant about the "first formal school in the history of the United States to study the consequences of alcohol" having its home in the Bulldogs' back-yard...