Word: wet
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Hardwick '15 took the backs in hand, and showed them a number of points on taking men out and general interference work, using a dummy and straw in one corner of the field. After that the backs caught punts, which gave them especially useful practice in handling a wet pig-skin. Meanwhile there was charging practice for the linesmen. For the last forty minutes of the afternoon the teams ran through signals. The usual scrimmage was omitted on account of the rain...
Whether or not we like prohibition, it is now very rapidly coming into its own. The passing of the National Amendment through the Massachusetts legislature has shown conclusively that there is little hope for the "wets." Massachusetts is the eleventh state to ratify and more significant, the fifth wet state. New York alone, of all the states that have been so far called upon to face this problem, has refused to pass the amendment: It has been successful even in such strongholds of the liquor interests as Kentucky and Maryland...
...part of the Constitution is now only a question of time, and a short time at that. There are twenty-one more dry states that have not yet passed it, but their favorable decision is a foregone conclusion. It only needs the affirmative vote of four out of 16 wet states remaining to get the required two-thirds. If Massachusetts had followed New York and temporized, the wet forces might have stood some chance, but the example of the conservative Bay State will be of overwhelming value to the "drys". John Barleycorn's reign will soon be over...
...pictures in the current number is a trifle unusual. The same photographer who went to Princeton also got up early enough to snap one of the R. O. T. C. companies passing through the Stadium gate on a rainy morning. His enterprise again gave a picture that even the wet weather couldn't quite spoil. Among the "newsy" pictures are those of the victorious Freshman cross-country team and the new Sophomore class officers...
...orderlies, and the first building they entered was the Y. M. C. A. marquees. Here they passed by the counter and were given free cocoa, bread, cheese, crackers, and cigarettes. Can you imagine anything more wonderful than coming in, after being out in the enchase for days, perhaps, cold, wet, and hungry, and being given a nice hot cup of cocoa with a word of greeting? I cannot tell you what an impression this sight made on me, but it surely made my heart ache. Having seen the battle from the start, I could not help comparing it with...