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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general outlook presented by the beer situation is that of a distinct blot, with few highlights. Harvard is directly affected by the clause forbidding sale to minors, which only constrains large institutions who do not need it, and which will be avoided completely by those to whom it should apply; but the state at large is touched by the whole affair. It is an example of the sort of precipitate absurdity which has for years furnished Mr. Mencken with subjects for his articles, and which has created all the connotations which attach to the word, "America...
Although no official statement has been made, Harvard undergraduates may rest reasonably well assured that beer will not be sold in college dining halls. The moral implications of the sale of a "non-intoxicating" beverage have been only too prominent in the official mind; and since those bogies have been combined with a state law forbidding such sale to legal minors, it is safe to say that the administration will allow less vulnerable and consequently less scrupulous merchants on the Square to profit, without competition, from the Undergraduate Thirst...
...police, beer will be sold in Cambridge either directly to, or for consumption by, minors. Beer is traditionally a college man's drink. And any merchant with a proper eye to his own interest will be none too anxious to require the display of birth certificates. Morally, moreover, the sale of beer to students, albeit minors, would be a move toward temperance in the college, would be rather more in keeping with the spirit of the present liquor legislation, one suspects, than are the widely flung photographs of hilarious elders justifying a new independence by faultless gluttony...
...found forbidding sale of spirits anywhere within two miles of "Farmer's High School" - now Pennsylvania State College. No-beer rulings were handed down by the presidents of Lafayette, Muhlenberg, Lehigh and the University of Pennsylvania...
...other bids?" asked the receiver, knowing well there would be none. Then he knocked down the sale...