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...following item from the Yale News needs no comment: "At the end of last term two members of '85, bent upon a night's work at compositions, desiring something in the way of stimulants, provided themselves with two bottles of ginger ale. They were found naturally in a well-nigh exhausted state the following morning...
...trust, however, that whatever the result may be, no undue enthusiastic levity will be shown, such as carrying the victors about on the shoulders, begging for locks of hair, etc., etc. It is said that the president will give a banquet of ginger-ale and crackers to the winners. This munificence calls for the highest commendation, and a cup from the Athletic Association if they have one left...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Some time since I addressed a communication to your paper in which I advocated the introduction of beer and ale at Memorial Hall. In your editorial of yesterday I see that you do not agree with me, and are fearful lest some case of excessive drinking should occur which would tend to injure Harvard in the opinion of outsiders. You say that a man could restrain his desire for drinking until he had crossed the yard to go to Adam's or Carl's. But the same thing could be said of the entire list of extras...
...have no doubt but that your readers have had a surfeit of Memorial, but there is one suggestion that I should like to make. It will probably seem to many decidedly unconservative, and many will perhaps frown upon it as nonsensical. What I propose is nothing less than that ale or beer be allowed at dinner. The arguments usually advanced against the introduction of this healthy drink at Memorial are perfectly ludicrous. It is silly to suppose that men would for an instant so far forget their self-respect as to drink to excess. The use of ale or beer...
...presence of ale were allowed at Memorial it would give that social attraction, that home-like, comfortable air to the hall that few men would resist. Instead of being a half-deserted, lonesome place, which makes a man feel "blue" the instant he enters it, it would become a true commons, where would resort the most of the men in college, to pass what would become the pleasantest hour of the day. I trust that you will give this communication a place in your columns, although I confess that it may seem very much of an innovation which I advocate...