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...Associated Press reports from Hartford, Connecticut, that Arthur B. O'Keefe, a seventeen-year old freshman of Trinity College, has been suspended from the college for what the authorities call "a violation of rules regarding drinking." Discounting the indefinite phrasing of the charge, which might cover anything from sipping a cocktail to climaxing an evening of drunken driving, assault and battery, and window smashing by setting fire to the college chapel in a fit of alcoholic pique, O'Keefe's suspension brings into the limelight one of the most disturbing aspects of Prohibition as it relates to the American college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COLLEGE "CRIMINAL" | 5/20/1930 | See Source »

...Seventeen per cent favored full enforcement; 83% asked for repeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Polls | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

...seventeen to write the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: First Duke Inc. | 2/10/1930 | See Source »

...July 23 the party traveled by rail from Jasper to Robson Station, and then on horseback to Berg Lake Camp, seventeen miles distant, in the upper part of the "Valley of a Thousand Falls." This camp is situated on the shores of the lake at the foot of Mount Robson, the monarch of the Canadian Rockies. Here again the weather proved quite unsatisfactory, but on Thursday it was possible to spend the day outside the shelter of the camp. One group under the leadership of Dr. Parejas crossed Robson Glacier and climbed the Lynx. Traversing its summit and the neighboring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Field Geology Group of Summer School Had an Eventful Time on Expedition in Canadian Rockies | 1/18/1930 | See Source »

...Council is composed of delegates from seventeen learned socities, which, with the dates of their foundation, are the following...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Langer on Committee of Fellowships and Grants Which Will Spend $200,000 Over Three-Year Period in New Program | 1/9/1930 | See Source »

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