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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...France absinthe; England ale. The obvious moral is--If you seek peace and prosperity eschew the demon rum! I do not seek to emulate Mrs. Nation--the eminently illustrious "Hatchet Carrie," nor am I an embryo Anthony Comstock. Yet I believe in total abstinence for college men. However, the question of total abstinence is not necessary for the present discussion. It is an undisputed fact that to countenance Hogarthian over-drinking at smokers and dinners is to create an undesirable impression on the outside world and particularly in the minds of parents and boys who are preparing to choose...
Four more communications on the beer question--selected from some dozens--are printed in today's issue. With these letters, the argument seems to have been given sufficient space in the CRIMSON, and those desiring further discussion are referred to the Forum which will be held on the subject soon after the mid-years...
...Some Aspects of the Tariff Question" is the title of a book by Professor F. W. Taussig '79, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, which is now in preparation at the University Press, and will be issued at an early date. This book is, in the opinion of able economists, the most important work on international trade by an American scholar. The subject has really not been treated in any new light since the time of John Stuart Mill, and a study such as this has been long awaited by students of the subject. The author is a great authority...
Does not the question of beer at class smokers call for a little more discrimination than some of your correspondents have employed...
...vigorous attempt to keep from drinking it themselves. They could do that without all these letters. Obviously they are trying to reform their neighbors, and to force all the members of the University to share their own abstemiousness. Granting that beer is harmful, there would remain some question of the wisdom of this proceeding in a University that attempts to train men for a life where most people are necessarily run by themselves and not by various self appointed supervisors...