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...January the undergraduates griped as they filed out another on prohibition. Although the drys stood 1,000 strong Harvard didn't side with the government and they failed to override the wets. Not quite surfeited, the CRIMSON ran a poll, this time on the Bok Peace Plan...
...Beer is essentially a man's drink," wrote six irate drys in a counter-petition. "The picture of women in the senior women's college attempting to sink their pints would be pathetic and ridiculous." Nonsense, cried a wet: "It's about time we had some equality with...
...when the Drys controlled the House, they refused to reapportion because they were afraid of losing seats to the Wets. It was 1929 before a law forcing reapportionment was pushed through, just before a new census would have required another change...
...University Extension Course, given for the first time this year, played to a mixed audience of both wets and drys. It tries to teach them that "benders, binges, and buts" are a disease, and as a disease are subject to treatment, encouragement, and cure...
...course is neither for wets nor drys," he adds. "Obviously, if you don't drink, you don't become alcoholic. But 60 percent of adults are social drinkers, a Gallup poll shows. The public needs to know that one man's drink is another's poison...