Word: fourteens
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...pretty uncomfortable for a while, what with Cronin's half-empty on Saturday night and the Casablanca equally devoid of its usual group of sociables. The ironic thing about it all was that the crackdown had nothing to do with college excesses or even with bars. A fourteen year-old boy was found in very bad shape due to the effects of a quart of Scotch from a local package store. The Alcoholic Beverage Commission moved in, everywhere, with a vengeance...
...idea of a fourteen year-old lying dead-drunk on a sidewalk is certainly disturbing. But the ABC has taken a somewhat ineffective means of preventing such occurrences, leaving the package stores comparatively untouched, while purging inoffensive bars. If the twenty-one year age limit were enforced along more sensible lines, public cooperation might increase accordingly...
...cases like that of the fourteen year-old, the ABC must seek to secure greater social responsibility, both from liquor dealers and from the general public. Under existing practices, many people, antagonized by the ABC's behavior, sympathetically abet what they consider "oppressed" youth. The surest way of insuring public confidence is a more practical approach toward such minor matters as the eleven o'clock beer. Another measure which would secure greater public confidence would be to lower the age limit to eighteen, at least on relatively harmless wines and beers, if not on hard liquors...
...Growing in his interest is the study of man-his biology, physiology, psychology." He is so aware of his own personality that he frequently identifies with the characters in books and movies ("That's me. That's me all over!"). But most of all, Fourteen is an age of reason and searching. "Albert Schweitzer relates how in his fourteenth year the joys of seeking for what was true and good came upon him 'like a kind of intoxication' ... As a philosopher he holds the 14-year-old youth in high regard, and pays him a compliment...
Otherwise, the meet was pretty unfruitful for the Crimson, as it finished a dismal eleventh out of the fourteen-team field. Yale, the winner, carded a team score of 603, to the Crimson...