Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Possibilities that beer may be served in the House Dining Halls were considerably strengthened last night with the information that at a meeting of the House Masters yesterday plans were considered for the sale of beer in the Houses to those over 21 years...
Professors, their wives, and their children who are of age, are swelling the coffers of the Faculty Club restaurant where beer is being served, it was discovered yesterday. While the College has been struggling to allow beer in the dining halls, the Faculty Club members were quietly applying for a license and were granted one on Saturday by the City of Cambridge, with the approval of Mayor R. M. Russell '14. The Lincoln's Inn Society, a law school eating club, was also granted a license at the same time...
...Beer has come in, quietly and calmly, to the delight of its protagonists; the calamity howlers are confounded, and hoist by their own petard; an emasculated Bacchus reigns in the Hub. This lack of the predicted drunkenness has been touted in the papers and by the people; but the fact that the advent of beer was attended by every conceivable trouble save that rather pleasant one of inebriety has been generally glossed over. The control measure itself was passed at the last minute, after the legislators, doddering cheerfully along in pursuit of such problems as the feasibility of serving beer...
Unfortunately, the tradesmen of Boston took over the problem where the law-givers had ceased, handling it with approximately the same acumen. Near beer was sold to trusting customers, who believed they were actually quenching their alcoholic thirsts; a barrel of the beverage was, and is sold by the glass at a hundred per cent profit. While the tax imposed is high, the profits reaped by retailers and brewers are higher, and the people, willing to pay any sum at first, are bearing the burden...
...general outlook presented by the beer situation is that of a distinct blot, with few highlights. Harvard is directly affected by the clause forbidding sale to minors, which only constrains large institutions who do not need it, and which will be avoided completely by those to whom it should apply; but the state at large is touched by the whole affair. It is an example of the sort of precipitate absurdity which has for years furnished Mr. Mencken with subjects for his articles, and which has created all the connotations which attach to the word, "America...