Word: present
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reason why the advocates of the repeal of the Volstead Act are so agitated at the present time is because they have hurled a definite challenge at President Hoover," said Thomas Nixon Carver, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy, when asked to comment on statements made in behalf of Prohibition by Professor Irving Fisher, Yale economist, in a recent address. "If he succeeds in improving conditions as they are, and materially cutting down the evil as it now exists, the main argument of the wets will be gone. They have been hurling the lack of enforcement into the faces...
...increase until the winter of 1926-1927; but now the deaths caused either directly or indirectly from excessive (or even moderate) consumption of alcohol have been checked by the law. The number has never been so high as in pre-prohibition days, and never will as long as the present law is in existence...
...finally employing these funds in accordance with these ideas may probably be explained by the hope of the Corporation for further subscriptions from Alumni. The fact that there is a pressing need for funds in many departments which are not self-supporting can only increase the satisfaction over the present decision to make this perfectly legitimate use of the Associations surplus funds...
...Eabelais", the topic of Professor Morize's lecture this morning at ten in Harvard 6, offers the Vagabond an occasion to become a little more familiar with this outstanding figure in French literature. Although Rabelais' work is of such permanent significance as to be a standard, the present activity of book censors and other public officials makes Professor Morize's subject very timely and of special interest even to those to whom French literature itself makes no appeal...
...years since his retirement have seen Harvard continue on the road of progress marked for it by him and his contemporaries; but he himself has never rested on the knowledge of his accomplishments. Writing, studying, and understanding, he has maintained his contact with the changing present: and the present will have, at his lecture, opportunity to feel this contact. The title "Growing Old" is significant only when one realizes he grows old with such grace that he seems to live a perpetual youth...