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This fall, in a sober moment, the student body voted in a "petit prohibition." No liquor may be consumed after 1 a.m., and the Sunday milk-punch parties have given way to discreet tippling between noon and 2 p.m. This year's Dartmouth weekend is shaping up as a good subject to omit in letters to sensitive parents...
Happily for the emotional pressure within the stadium, the French team was clearly superior; it bounced back from a 1-to-1 tie at halftime to win, 3-1. That night the well-behaved Germans, sober and polite, celebrated their defeat in Paris nightclubs. One German girl, now working in Paris, summed up the feelings of everyone : "I'm glad the French won. It's better that...
Bottled Up. In Greenville, S.C., when the drunks in the city jail never seemed to sober up, police kept a close watch, nabbed Janitor Jesse McKamey peddling whisky through the bars...
...this date, students were prohibited from frequenting the "society of such men as lead an unjust and dissolute life," and from taking tobacco, "unless permitted by the President, with the consent of their parents and guardians, and on good reason first given by a physician, and then in a sober and private manner...
...Example. In Sioux Falls, S.Dak., charged with disturbing the peace, Robert Rehfeldt was fined $10 when he told the court that he only drank three beers and was "sober as a judge...