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...years the doctors have told me that it was essential that I should consume at least a quart of milk daily, while my brain has informed me that it was of primary importance for me to have coffee to prevent me from falling asleep in the midst of the ever important intellectual conversations which flourish at the end of all House meals. Now I am forced to dispense with at least one of these, and I find it impossible to determine which. The result is that for days I have had nothing to drink; I am completely asleep...
...case of milk, he explained, all students now who order it at every meal receive over a quart a day including what goes into the cooking, an amount more than sufficient for any normal human being, and most animals...
...annual Community Chest drive, and Faculty and employees of the University cannot be expected to make up all of the difference. Both have contributed more than ever before, and students can well afford to give up a couple of trips to the movies, of the price of a quart of Scotch, in order to help Harvard reach its quota. There are only two more days to go, and if the University fails to make up the $11,000 still lacking, most of the blame will lie upon the hands of the student body...
Liquor prices are still "moderate" in the Square though sales are up. A vendor pointed out that just after prohibition prices were way above these now charged, for "stuff" that might be no more than just "a quart of grain alcohol mixed in with some rally prune juice." Now, according to all reports, whisky is better quality
...liquor, which caused the biggest rush, the tax increase is a flat $1 a gallon. For a quart of whiskey the additional tax amounts to 25?; for a fifth, it comes to 20?. But whiskey buyers this week found that prices had gone up as much as 50? a quart, 35? a fifth. On radios, the additional tax is 4½%, bringing the total Federal tax to 10%. But radio prices are up a full 10% or more...