Word: usefulness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...many questions relating to National Prohibition can never be settled satisfactorily until they have been dragged into the light of free and frank public discussion. Should the 18th amendment be repealed, or itself amended? If it must stand, is it to be interpreted literally, so as to abolish all use of alcohol, or liberally so as to limit prohibition to actual intoxicants? These are questions which public opinion alone can answer, and the bombshell of national prohibition has left a very much dazed state of public opinion in its wake. As yet the actual enforcement of the 18th amendment...
...them. But are light wines, beer, and ale, "intoxicating"? Almost anyone would answer in the negative. Certainly it would take gallons of 3 per cent, beer to have the slightest deleterious effect. As for light wines, even were they intoxicating, their high price would continue seriously to limit their use, and to do away with their abuse altogether. We feel confident that if the Supreme Court of the United States interpreted the 18th Amendment as applying only to spirituous liquors, which alone are intoxicating, and not to light wines and beer, they would be carrying out the will...
Wednesday evening, May 7, has been set as the date for the postponed Sophomore Smoker. The Smoker was to have been held on Thursday, May 1, but it was impossible to obtain permission from the fire authorities to use the building on that day, because of the Senior Smoker on the preceding evening. The postponed Smoker will be held in the Living Room of the Union at 8 o'clock...
...telegram has been received from the Curtiss Aeroplane Company which offers to provide a machine at Atlantic City for the use of the University aviators, with the probability of also being able to secure a seaplane for them...
...order to promote the sport of trapshooting and to increase interest in the use of the scatter gun, the pistol and the high and low power rifle, the Harvard Gun Club is being reorganized. The committee active in this work are H. O. Apthorp '20, R. Fiske, Jr., '20, A. D. Hamilton '21, and E. C. Storrow, Jr., '21, who state that it is their intention to reopen the club-house on Soldiers Field, to install traps, and to begin shooting early in May. Most of the shoots will be open not only to members...