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...representative of the student attitude. Any discussion of Prohibition, and such a subject must necessarily be included in an analysis of modern American government and economics, will naturally focus attention on a large class of citizens, who have heretofore been quite reticent on the theory and practice of the Eighteenth Amendment. Although, in the eyes of some persons, students may be better qualified to debate on education and athletics, their contribution to the mass of material on government and industry will prove at least novel. At any rate, the ancient adage that the younger generation should confine its personality...
...either side of this last bit of news, the protest of a New Jersey State Commission against the Volstead Act the demands of the Prohibition Commissioner for wood alchol poison in industrial alchol, and accounts of action to come before the House Judiciary Committee for the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment...
...yesterday's prohibition news is in that summary by any means, but enough to prove that prohibition, though settled at law by the peoples' representatives, is still a mooted point in the minds of the people themselves, in the face of such confusion as surrounds the Eighteenth Amendment, it is not to be wondered if the reaction of undergraduates towards the whole business is one of thorough disgust...
...otherwise wholly admirable shifting of the center of college life nearer the river that fashion has in recent years greatly altered, and many believe for the worse. Yet it is fair to remember that if we are to turn to another system, there was in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, even in the earlier years of the nineteenth century, a custom or habit, even in some sort a ritual of dining in hall. This though less ancient than that in some of the English colleges and in some measure derived from theirs, (as theirs, it must be remembered...
There is, strictly speaking, on Baby Volstead law in this state. Two separate dry acts have been passed in this state since the Eighteenth Amendment was adopted. Another act embodying the features of the Volstead Act was voted down. The first of these dry acts, passed in 1921, merely forbade the sale and exposure for sale of all intoxicating liquors. It did not forbid the manufacture, importation, or transportation of such liquors. A second and supplementary act was passed later. This later act forbade the manufacture, importation, and transportation of liquors, thus covering what the earlier act had failed...