Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same state held for House-wide parties. Students knew they were supposed to check I.D.s and buy temporary liquor licenses if they wanted to tap kegs, but few of them did. They maintained they could not break even on dances if they had to pay both a band and $50 for a one-night license. So they chanced the wrath of the Cambridge Police Department--it seemed a pretty safe bet. Harvard parties are almost always uneventful; inebriated students generally head back to their rooms rather than vandalize the city...
...surprisingly, the House masters eventually took a more pragmatic view. If a local liquor merchant, upset with the Houses' flippant dismissal of the law, complained to authorities, or if a sodden teenager raising trouble mentioned he'd gotten the booze at Harvard, it would be the masters' heads rolling. Masters are not the legal guardians of college students, but the House system sets them up in loco parentis. The House masters could therefore not afford to let students run their own happy hours, no matter how discriminate in serving the students promised to be. The potential for a lawsuit...
This policy corresponds to the revised guidelines for college-wide dances issued earlier this fall by Archie C. Epps, dean of students. Liquor will only be allowed at senior class functions--and then only when students check I.D.'s to ensure that all the seniors attending are actually 20 years old. To serve alcohol, students have to buy temporary liquor and public entertainment licenses for a $57 fee. But when the functions are only for the House members, the master has jurisdiction...
Quite a bit, the House masters recently said, when they decided to enforce the ban they made last spring on happy hours and liquor at House parties...
Even if he does not get permission to serve alcohol, liquor will be available at the train's bar, he added...