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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Your editorial in the CRIMSON of Oct. 14, regarding the stand of the W. C. T. U. as to tobacco, and another on the subject of alcoholic conviviality which appeared in almost your first issue this fall, have aroused my curiosity...
Naturally, the Weed is not in exactly the same class as His Majesty, King Alcohol. Although a few of us enjoy life. as well and save considerable good money by omitting tobacco from our menu, the overwhelming majority offer incense to the God of Nicotine. But to attack the W. C. T. U. or any other organization for attempting to curtail the use of this rather unnecessary and not universally worshipped vegetable, seems to me somewhat like shutting the doors and windows of a smoke-filled room while some one else is trying to ventilate...
...only comment which E. W. Mahan '16 would make on the University football team, which he watched yesterday afternoon, was that "the men looked heavy and there were plenty of them." Mahan has just returned from Roumania, where he has been serving on the American Relief Commission. For six months he has been engaged in distributing food to refugees throughout Roumania and Hungary...
...first 13 men, in their order of finishing, were as follows: J. G. Winchester, H. L. Pratt, Jr., G. S. Mahon, W. C. Bennett, S. L. Tait, B. D. Howard, L. Zerega, P. R. Brown, R. M. Bryan, T. S. Whitman, W. W. Smith, S. B. Robinson and C. J. Shean...
...were held yesterday afternoon. The results follow: J. E. Nally '21, doing the course in 26 minutes and 7 seconds, was first. Following him, in the order given, were G. F. Wason '21, F. G. Bemis '22, T. G. Ames '20, B. Lewis '20, H. G. Crosby '22, A. W. Douglas '20. Although 17 men are entered for this meet, which is a week from Saturday, only six men will be taken on the trip. They will be selected by a series of time trials, the first of which came yesterday...