Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early this week the CRIMSON editorially favored the serving of beer in the House dining halls. Since that time, the Comptroller has issued a statement to the effect that, having carefully weighed all advantages and disadvantages, he has decided against the introduction. As the State legislature yesterday carried a resolution legalizing Massachusetts beer, some criticism of the Comptroller's decision might be pertinent. First, of course, is the consideration that Cambridge may not revoke its statute against sale at the general election called for the purpose. But aside from this, the principal objections of the Comptroller seem to fall under...
...regard to the former, the only group affected would be the absolute prohibitionists. Certainly real temperance opinion cannot be concerned with the inclusion of beer of low alcoholic content on the menus of student dining halls. That the privilege need be abused is an assumption, after all, largely gratuitous. If the authorities are disposed to cynicism, there can be little objection to an intelligent regulation. As for those who disapprove of the consumption of alcohol within whatever limits, one would have thought that an experiment of ten years duration had discredited them rather thoroughly. To such groups as the intransigent...
...second objection is, on the whole, more respectable. Should Cambridge do the expected and repeat its ordinance, dispensing beer would still necessitate a license, and there might be fears that the innovation would not justify itself financially. But in the past the authorities were able to cope with both features, and after the legalization of beer the situation should not be substantially different. Many corporations of smaller stature than the University propose to become licensed, and the management which accumulated a surplus in the House dining halls should be equal to the problem of selling beer profitably. Now that...
...Monday morning the CRIMSON will open a poll for the expression of student opinion upon the matter of beer drinking in the University dining halls. Ballots and ballot boxes will be placed in the Union and in each of the House dining halls, and voting will be open during meal times...
...number of years ago, beer was served in the dining halls, and early accounts of the College refer to "free grog" in the Yard. A Cambridge ordinance, enacted before Prohibition, forbids the public sale of intoxicating beverages in the city, and it is believed that this statute is still in effect...