Word: points
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pertinent point of the Yale Professor's lecture was that "Alcohol is a poison and a nareotic just like morphine, and a single glass of beer is sufficient to render some men incapable of driving an automobile safely." Professor Carver agreed heartily with this argument, and added that, in the matter of drunken driving, there is more danger to a community from the actions of a moderate drinker than from a habitual drunkard. "A man" completely intoxicated is not likely to go out and drive a car, whereas a person who has but a few drinks, maybe...
...argument often advanced in favor of drinking, that there should be no harm in drinking, and that there is great pleasure therefrom can easily be answered. Professor Fisher's statement as to the drugging effect of liquors is in itself a valid refutation of the facts of the point; and furthermore, the argument is on the face of it a fanatical one. Drinking as a personal pleasure should never be used as an argument in advocating the use of liquors when there are so many dangers involved...
...West Point, N. Y., October 16 Army's aerial attack clicked to perfection this afternoon in the final hard scrimmage for the cadets before the Harvard game. Playing against a scrub team augmented by first string substitutes, Coach "Biff" Jones' charges galloped down the field at will...
...numerous breaches of taste which occurred yesterday, such a mess was made upon Widener steps that the University had five men working five hours to clear it away. Whether there is still a place at Harvard for initiations essentially inoffensive but still childish and collegiate is not now the point. It will be unfortunate if the College authorities feel forced to break with custom and interfere with a situation which should be corrected by the individuals directly responsible. It will be a sorry reflection upon Harvard maturity if preparatory school correction must be meted out from above...
...Harvard eleven which will start against the West Point cadets on Saturday, although not yet officially announced, now seems pretty definitely made up. The lineups of the past two days of practice seem to indicate that Team A, as it ran through signals yesterday, with but one exception, will open against Army...