Word: eighteenth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proposing out solution," Harrington said, "we have assumed first that present conditions are intolerable, and secondly that it is impossible to repeat to the Eighteenth Amendment. Repeat requires a two-thirds majority in each of the legislatures of 36 of the 48 states plus of two-thirds majority in both house of the federal congress. It has been calculated that one thirty-fifth of the population of the United States could prevent repeal. Oar third assumption is that something should be done about the situations...
...additional cooperation of three newly announced college polls on prohibition, the launching of several midwestern debating programs on the subject, and the preparation for a simultaneous release of voting results from more than a score of universities indicate that college sentiment on the Eighteenth Amendment, will reach its peak next week...
...unfortunate that there are no statistics showing the extent of drinking in the university during past years. The News referendums of 1924 and 1926 concerned themselves with sounding out undergraduate sentiment on the Eighteenth Amendment, but did not attempt to investigate the amount of drinking. The only figures available for comparison, therefore, are those from senior questionnaires in Yale, Harvard, and Princeton. These indicate an extremely slight decrease in drinking at Yale between 1906 and 1920. After 1920 there are no figures. No one knows, however, whether this decrease occurred because of, in spite of, or without reference to prohibition...
...three, "If you drink, name in order the three alcoholic beverages in which you most commonly indulge", was included because the News feels that while it is ascertaining the extent of drinking, it should also determine what liquor is most commonly imbibed. The last two questions, dealing with the Eighteenth Amendment, are substantially the same as those asked in previous referendums. In 1924 the majority was in favor of light wines and beer. In 1926 the undergraduates voted four to one against the Volstead Act, and favored government control of sale and manufacture of liquor...
...decided to temporarily discontinue their usual policy of but a single contest with the University and to have two debates with the Harvard Debating team this year. The second debate will be held late in April to discuss the Harvard Debating Council's plan for the enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment. This reestablishes the debating relations which have existed for many years between Harvard, Yale, and Princeton...