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...therefore, beer containing 3% or 4% of alcohol by volume is not intoxicating." "A cordial or liqueur," he continued, "such as curagao or benedictine, although it may contain 50% of alcohol, is not intoxicating, for in common practice such beverages are consumed only in very small amounts. But whiskey, gin or rum, having approximately the same alcoholic content, are frequently taken at a rate which results in the absorption into the blood within an hour of enough centimetres of alcohol to intoxicate." Although Pedagog Yandell did not mention wine in his list of good cheer, yet Yale was also wine...
...conspicuous figure among one's fellow men is undoubtedly one of the most fundamental and primitive reactions of the race, and until comparatively recent times the college student has been singularly fortunate in the achievement of such preeminence. But of late years the feverish exploitation of gin, necking, and sartorial eccentricities has been to no avail against the far more adroit advertising of Masons, Elks and the Ku Klux Klan, and the unfortunate collegian is faced with the possibility of being recognized by the public in all his shame as a perfectly normal individual...
...charitable Edward S. Harkness, Yale has but a short span of moagre years before her. The oldtime meditation and culture have fled the university cloisters and, in their stead, have come cynicism and sophistication. The mellow beer that mocked the hearts of the fathers has become bad gin for the raging sons. Things have come to a pretty pass...
...London, "Golden Dawn," consisting of one part orange juice, two of Calvados gin, one of apricot brandy, a dash of grenadine, was chosen World's Finest Cocktail by an international jury of one trade, one press, two public, representatives and a maitre d'hotel. To insure against a jaded taste, only five cocktails were sampled at a sitting. Prize cocktail concocter: Tom Buttery, teetotaling barkeep at London's smart Berkeley...
...jail or prison for doing what they and their ancestors for generations have regarded as a matter of private concern. . . . The Democratic Party of Connecticut stands for the repeal. . . . Action is imperative if the people of the United States are to be kept from degenerating into a nation of gin-drinkers...