Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Universitys' "open mind" on the question of serving beer in the dining halls will not be made up until the municipal and state law on the subject has been made clear, it was stated yesterday at University Hall. The announcement came as the aftermath of the CRIMSON poll, in which the undergraduate body voted nearly six to one in favor of the service of beer...
...addition to the uncertainty surrounding the question of allowing the sale of beer, the method of licensing and selection of places for sale remain to be cleared up by municipal ordinance...
...late the Vagabond has been a little appalled with the hoopla of anticipation called forth by the new beer bill. As a rule he eschews politics, but in a matter that comes so perilously close to home, he feels that he must speak out. To be brief, he considers the provision for 3.2 per cent peer the most piffling undersized insult ever thrown in the face of a great people, and he cannot understand the careless acclaim with which it has been accepted. He is driven to the mournful conclusion that Americans never had any discrimination in their taste...
There is nothing to be done about the general situation, he realizes, the flood gates of 3.2 per cent beer will doubtless soon be opened upon the whole nation. But in Cambridge, with a faculty and a student body supposedly versed in liquid lore, a complete return to the era of lager beer and sawdust floors can be averted. The Vagabond has a definite ideal as to how things should be around the Square after repeal. In the matter of public drinking he acknowledges his debt to German and English sources: there ought to be at least one Biergarten, right...
...stock, is of course, the most important consideration. It would have to keep always to the delicate line between heartiness and vulgarity, inclining not too much to the spirituous side, nor overstressing the products of the barleycorn. First, beer on draught, and then some good English ale; Bass No. 1 would do admirably. Then stout, not in bottles, but in the wood, and a good variety of the other malt brews; hard cider, with some Perry that is not too strong; rum, whisky, gin, and a few of the cheaper wines...