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...morning at 10.30 o'clock at Phillips Brooks House Professor Albert Bushnell Hart '80 will conduct an open forma for discussion after his talk on the moral duty toward the Prohibition Law. At the 2.30 meeting Rabbi Harry Levi will speak on a college man's attitude towards the Eighteenth Amendment with some mention of the "Personal Liberty" aspect of the question. The subject on which the Honorable J. Weston Allen will talk has not been announced...
Over the week-end, delegates from fifty colleges will hold discussions, conferences, lectures and all sorts of things to thresh out definitely and finally whether the Eighteenth Amendment ought to be enforced. The chief objection of this New England Citizenship Conference is to influence student opinion on the Prohibition question, and incidentally to give the student body a chance to express itself...
...most interesting thing about this Conference, however, is that there should be a Conference at all on the subject of Prohibition enforcement. Certainly Prohibition was made the law of the land by the Eighteenth Amendment, and machinery of the usual kind was set to work to enforce it. Why then, should there be any discussion? Why isn't this law enforced exactly as every other law is enforced? There are no conferences to discuss whether the law against burglary should be enforced, or whether the law against bigamy should be enforced, although there are constantly violations of these laws...
This term occurred to two individuals as the one most appropriate name for the violator of the eighteenth amendment, so that it has been necessary to divide the $200 between the two originators, Henry Irving Dale of Andover, and Miss Kate L. Butler of Fields Corner. Despite the alleged unpopularity of the wets in the West and the many entries received from that section of the country, Massachusetts, the stronghold of anti-Volstead sentiment, has furnished the chosen epithet...
According to latest developments yesterday, the feature of the day will be a speech by Rear Admiral William S. Sims on the subject "The Undergraduate and the Eighteenth Amendment," at the 3.30 P. M. Mass Meeting at the Union. Admiral Sims recently delivered the same address before 2000 Yale students, and before almost the entire undergraduate body at Princeton...