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With not a single State dissenting, 16 have so far disavowed national Prohibition. Sixteen more will vote before December. Enough additional States may possibly join the Wet parade to effect Repeal by Jan. 1. Such was the earnest hope of nondrinking "General" Farley as he and his Democratic machine concentrated their activities on the South last week...
...seniors on the basis of high honors, was passed Monday at a meeting of the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, when it held its annual election of officers and honorary members. As in previous years, the society will admit to its membership the usual "Junior Eight" and "Senior Sixteen" in addition to the Seniors attaining honors in special fields and recommended for degrees with distinction at Commencement...
...stipulation that beer cannot be sold to those under twenty-one years of age, it has proved not only harassing to the legal advisers of the University, but unenforceable throughout the state. There should, no doubt, be no sale to children, but to prevent it, an age-limit of sixteen would be a far wiser means than the present one. To replace a completely unenforced law like prohibition with another which must remain partially unenforced is a particularly ill-advised sort of legislation...
...newsstands have lately been enriched by the appearance of a new weekly, Polity, similar to the Forum in format, reminiscent of the Nation in editorial policy, and emanating from Chicago. At present, in its seventh issue, Polity can boast of no more than sixteen pages, but it is distinguished by an alert point of view and a tincture of intelligent cynicism which should go far toward tempting success...
Inevitable as spring and attractive as it will ever be for sixteen year olds, "Blossom Time" is no better this year than it was last. The voices are not the best, the acting is dated, the humor is not at all subtle, and yet audiences applaud and keep flocking to the Majestic every year. Along with a group of others that belong to a golden period in stage history, "The Student Prince," "The Prince of Pilsen," "The Red Mill," and "The Chocolate Soldier," the current attraction at the Majestic has captured a wisp of sentiment in the life of Franz...