Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conant has never owned an automobile. He likes mountain-climbing, tramping, and beer. He has seen just one movie: "Arrowsmith." He reads the radical publications and was sufficiently interested in economics to investigate thoroughly the Russian five-year plan. He is a member of the Harvard Republican Club but voted for Roosevelt, after considering Thomas. His admiration for the President has grown, and he is gratified that he seeks advice from college professors. --The New Yorker...
...opens its sessions silently, does business by taking the ''sense of the meeting." Swarthmore students dress simply, do not gad about Philadelphia as much as students from Haverford and U. of P. The men meet nightly in the ''Cracker Room" in their main dormitory. No beer is sold. This year the Swarthmore girls voted to disband their sororities, to which 75% belonged. Alumnae protested and the matter is still open. Yet Swarthmore is not all innocence. Two years ago Dean Alan C. Valentine, Rhodesman who is now master of Yale's Pierson College, staged...
...thirteen licensed stores in the immediate vicinity of Harvard Square sell on the average of 9400 glasses of beer every day or about 587 gallons, a CRIMSON reporter leaned Saturday from statistics furnished by the local venders. For places that have brew both in bottles and on tap, patrons buy approximately 20 gallons of bottled beer, or 160 bottles a day to 32 gallons or 512 scidels of beer on draught. There is one place in the Square that carries 14 brands, and averages $137 receipts on the beverage every 14 hours, Most licenses are $100 plus an additional...
...spite of the apparently large quantity sold new and the recent warm weather, merchants have noticed a steady drop in consumption. In the first week after April 6 the four shops that had licenses sold over 800 gallons a day. There is a feeling that when the beers have had more time to age, the price are reduced, and nationally known brands are everywhere available, that trade will pick up. When questioned whether their business would be affected if beer were held in the Houses, most shopkeepers seemed to fear that sales would drop off about 40 per cent...
...large amounts of the brew consumed in the first week were due principally to the fact that everyone who whetted his palate, had three or four steins. Now it is rare to supply the customer with more than one glass or bottle, Two stores that have beer to take out, average a sale of 19 cases...