Word: pugh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roger V. Pugh, Jr. '51, 11., a Social Relations major, submitted a thesis last spring entitled "The Drinking Habits of the Harvard Man" which should enlighten those who have speculated long and often on this subject...
According to this study of College seniors, one-half of the members of athletic teams drink during season, one-third of the students spend less than a dollar a month on alcohol, and one-quarter of the students have passed out from drinking. Pugh adds that between one-seventh and one-eighth of the students are consistent heavy drinkers...
...Pugh's heavy drinker is one who drinks "almost daily, regularly to excess, and has gone on a bender of over 24 hours...
...first consideration is why people drink. Of the 67 men to whom Pugh asked this question, 65--who admitted they drank--replied in the following manner: for the hell of it, to get away from it all, because they see others doing it, in college to get drunk, because they have nothing else to do, because of world tension and the collapse of all values, to get a girl, as a prelude to sex, to overcome fatigue, to relax, to be different, heats the hell out of me, for the thrill, and for the taste...
...Roger V. Pugh, Jr.: Eliot; House Athletic Secretary; Chairman, House Committee; Student Council; Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports...