Word: muste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nothing which anyone could say in favor of enforcing the prohibitory law could possibly please the fanatical wets. Reasonable people, wets and drys alike, must approve some parts of President Hoover's message which refer to that subject. Wets cannot honestly deny his first statement, namely that the first duty of the President under his oath of office is to secure the enforcement of the laws, nor his second, namely that the enforcement of the laws enacted to give effect to the eighteenth amendment is far from satisfactory. Beyond that there may be honest differences of opinion between wets...
...general merits of the question, there are a few things to be said for the dry side which must appeal to everyone who really wants to reach a sane conclusion. Unfortunately there are no Boston dailies except the Christian Science Monitor which will either tell the truth themselves or permit the truth to be told in their columns on this question. Harvard students at least ought to want to know the truth. Here are a few facts...
...have responded to appeals for voluntary contributions more and more generously. Millions of small contributions have come in. But the dry forces have never had funds enough to carry on as vigorous a campaign as the wets. At the present moment they are under the same old handicap. They must rely, as in the past, on the merits of their cause...
Some explanation other than the too easy one of undergraduate inertia must be found for the fact that fewer than one-half the men eligible voted in the Senior elections held last Wednesday. Granted that the present generation at Harvard has putgrown any yearning for strenuous political activity, there has nevertheless existed, even in recent year, much more interest in the choosing of class-officers than was manifested by the Class of 1930. The chief reason for the slight vote is rather to be found in the range of polling places and of time for voting. There are two alternatives...
...Harvard tutorial system, are significant only as more paternalism and increased floor space. After all Harvard would have been rather silly in the eyes of the world to turn down Mr. Edward F. Harkness' preferred eleven millions-even though he tied up the gift with the requirement that it must be used for student-faculty "houses." Michigan Daily...