Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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What at college, will take the place of alcoholic liquors as a promoter of contacts, a revealer of sympathetic tastes, a humanizer of stiff and frigid young minds? Why has drink played the important part that it has in college fiction, unless it is that the writers of college fiction have recognized its influence in shaping human relations at college...
...same high pitch as one any pre-war Class Day, and that both will reign triumphant until the last observation-train pulls out of New London Friday night, to the tune of "This is Harvard's Day." Fully conscious of the spirit of the occasion, we rise to drink a toast to the graduates, and to wish them all the happiest of possible reunions...
Tomorrow the Seniors will don their hip-pocketed overalls and sally forth on the long-heralded annual Senior picnic. Scholastic cares will be cast aside and the members of 1919 will eat, drink, and be merry at their last festive gathering as undergraduates...
...movement at Yale to regulate the number of undergraduate activities in which a student may participate indicates that those responsible for the idea had no faith in the adage "You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make him drink." Furthermore, the ruling is quite in keeping with the spirit of the times, when apparently the entire nation has gone quite mad on the subject of regulating anything and everything. National Prohibition has passed; various states are trying to introduce into their legislatures bills to prohibit the smoking of cigarettes; the Postal Telegraph Company has been almost regulated...
...other recommendations, cognizance had to be taken of the chief stumbling block--the insufficiency of attractive features as a means of fostering interest in the Union. The proverbial horse might be whipped, in a sense, to the trough of water, but he could not be forced to drink from that receptacle. In compelling each member of the University to join the Union by placing the tax on his term bill, additional revenue would be assured unquestionably. It would not follow, however, that the Union's popularity as a University Club would be enhanced by the procedure. The something which would...