Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Exposition. Expected, after viewing complicated manoeuvers of spectacular science, were, at least, a handful of clocks, or perhaps a gigantic hourglass. Thanks to a far-seeing director, no mechanical movement is in evidence. Even the visitors to the building are restricted in activity, and are content to plop their beer-saturated bodies into the chairs, and curtail the movement of their gum-chewing jaws...
...that after a century it is permissable to sell beer to Indians, it's about time Harvard got it. There has been an old law since 1837 prohibiting the sale of alcoholic liquors in Indian Territory, but before 1800 at Harvard students were encouraged to buy rum because the College got more of a substantial revenue from it than they had from the operation of the ferry across the Charles...
...Columbia last week a beer license was obtained principally because of the fact that in a six-week period patronage fell off so sharply in the John Jay Dining Halls (the cause of the strike last Spring) that further resistance to the Columbia Spectator's editorials would have been suicidal...
...after the House Masters at Harvard have virtually begged to have beer in the Dining Halls and it is known that some of the highest officials in University Hall see no objections, nothing has been done. Much talk was made about getting a license quietly to avoid open clash with local merchants and people who have not sympathy for the College because educational institutions are not required to pay taxes...
...each House organized itself as a club beer would be perfectly possible, and if the University Dining Halls handled the brew as profitably as they do the food, there would be no doubt that a third "Gold Room Guard" could be added to the Adams House force next year, but it seems that lawyers investigating consider the club plan a culpable evasion...