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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vast majority of the 24,000 students voting would oppose the present laws in theory as well as in practice. But the vote goes further than confirming this suspicion. It turns its attention to the men who do not drink and proves very positively that it is not respect for the law but personal taste that guides them. In this aspect the poll brings the weight of fact to the old contention that legislation is without effect in such moral and personal issues as the use of alcohol. Undergraduates drink if they choose to drink; even those who abstain flout...
...keen witted Cardinal Richelieu he brought out both the clever perception of the master plotter and at the same time he added an almost pathetic feeling of futility and remorse that must come from a life occupied with only intrigue and statecraft. His gestures were particularly eloquent in this respect, usually managing to convey a thoroughly adequate impression with the smallest motion of the hand. There was but one fault, and that is that death laid a very ostentatious hand upon him at surprisingly frequent intervals. The fact that one got a slightly muddled impression of the character...
...Twentysix out of 31 university presidents in this country say that student drinking is not general. . . . With due respect for the judgment of those presidents, we cannot help feeling that their opinion is of slight value unless checked by facts. And so far as Yale is concerned, the News proposes to have a look at the facts...
Twenty-six out of thirty-one university presidents in this country say that student drinking is not general. That statement was made last week by a prominent dry before the Judiciary Committee of the Bouse of Representatives. What does it prove? With due respect for the judgment or those presidents, we cannot help feeling that their opinion is of slight value unless checked by facts. And so far as Yale is concerned, the News, through its questionnaire, proposes to have a look at the facts...
...still lives there, edits The American Mercury when he comes (at least once a month) to Manhattan. He worked as reporter on various Baltimore newspapers, became editor of The Smart Set (1914-23) with Critic George Jean Nathan; of The American Mercury (1924). Said Nathan of Mencken: "I respect him, and am his friend, because he is one of the very few Americans I know who is entirely free of cheapness, toadyism and hypocrisy. . . . He is the best fighter I have ever met. And he is the fairest, the cleanest, and the most relentless." Delighting to shock, Iconoclast Mencken...