Word: drinkingness
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Sophomore year was his “drinking year,” Pierce says, to such an extent that he pre-programmed a list of friends’ e-mail addresses into his computer so that when he typed in “drunk” he could instantaneously send...
He cut back on drinking, wrestled with some long-standing concerns about his religion and made teaching his top priority.
In April 1979, the Mass. drinking age rose from 18 to 20, followed by a sharp crackdown on drinking at Harvard Square establishments that many students had previously frequented.
First-years arriving at Harvard near the end of the decade anticipated this change and many, according to Carroll, were determined to take advantage of the younger drinking age as much as they could while it lasted.
“When I got to college, everyone was already drinking,” he explains. “There was also this sense of anticipation. We knew they were going to raise the drinking age.”