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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next day. Then he would stop, survey himself anxiously. Would his intoxication last until night? . . . Most students found it did not. But the reason for trying was that at university dances it was forbidden to drink. To enter the ballroom one was obliged to swear that he had drunk no spirits since noon. This pledge was kept remarkably inviolate by the young gentlemen of Virginia. Last week, as an experiment, the University honor committee lifted the pledge during Easter week dances, because it "is considered a misapplication of the principles of honor; and the necessity for such a pledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Virginia's Honor | 4/24/1933 | See Source »

...Miss Beseley of Brattle Street. Harvard's Nolen, like Yale's Samuel B. ("Rosie") Rosenbaum and Princeton's John Hun, represented the highest type of crammer, but of them all it might have been written as it was of him: Dead or dreaming, drunk or sleeping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Publishers v. Crammers | 4/17/1933 | See Source »

...Dravosburg, Pa., Fire Chief Charles Thomas got drunk, turned in a false alarm, said to the judge, "Well, it was a swell night for a fire drill," was fined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 17, 1933 | 4/17/1933 | See Source »

Witnesses. When the trial began, Witness Ruby Bates had been missing for three weeks. It was reported that she had sent the police a letter retracting her previous accusation. Next report was that she had sent the police another letter saying she was drunk when she wrote the first. Each side suspected the other of kidnapping Witness Bates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: At Decatur | 4/10/1933 | See Source »

Adams Dunster Eliot Kirkland Leverett Lowell Winthrop Union Total 1 Do you drink beer? Yes 86 84 159 104 133 175 132 412 1285 No 17 12 70 21 21 15 25 138 319 2. Would a quart of non-intoxicating 3.2 beer, drunk with meals: Put you under the table? 2 8 16 6 12 16 7 42 109 Disturb the Waitress? 12 7 22 7 19 32 9 75 183 Improve the taste of University food? 72 69 141 86 110 137 120 394 1129 3. If Cambridge ordinances permit, do you favor the service of beer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMPLETE TABULATION OF RETURNS FROM CRIMSON BEER POLL | 3/28/1933 | See Source »

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