PROHIBITION

Two students out of every three at Dartmouth drink, only 16 out of 500 teetotallers refrain from indulging because of legal restrictions, 93% of the drinkers obtain what they want without difficulty, and Dartmouth has voted overwhelming wet but, in the group of fourteen colleges in the East who carried on this canvass at the same time, Dartmouth stood seventh, with a drinking percentage of 64.5% preceded by Princeton with 79%, Amherst 73%, Assumption (Worcester, Mass.) 73%, Cornell 68%, Michigan 67%, and Harvard 65%.

The question of Dartmouth's prohibition status came up as a result of the widespread interest among college men over drinking. The Daily Princetonian secured college editorial opinions throughout the country and found a surprising amount of bitterness toward prohibition. First to place the matter before the student body was the Yale DailyNews: result, decided wetness. Soon the group of fourteen editorial boards got together, issued questionnaires and released results on a fixed day. Twenty-four thousand votes were cast, fifteen thousand came back as drinkers. Of 21,000 those favoring repeal or modification of the 18th amendment numbered 16,600, and of the whole group only 838 were entirely satisfied with the present situation. The University of Pennsylvania joined Kansas and Tennessee (see LiteraryDigest) in registering the only dry poll. Of a total of 16,783 voting students, 4781 admitted they got drunk. Princeton and Harvard were the only colleges in the whole poll in which the number of student drinkers who confessed getting drunk outnumbered those who did not get drunk. Eighty-four percent of the teetotallers refrained from drinking from purely personal reasons.

The results of the Dartmouth poll follow: General

1. Is drinking countenanced in your home? Yes, 619. No, 721.

2. Did you drink before coming to college? Yes, 540. No. 769. Occasionally, 497. Regularly, 43.

Local

1. Do you drink at the present time? Yes, 801. No, 441. Occasionally, 767. Regularly, 110.

2. If you drink: Do you use light wines and beer or hard liquor? Light wines and beer, 372. Hard liquor, 675.

3. Do you use imported or unbonded liquor? Imported, 618. Unbonded, 327.

4. In buying, how much do you pay per quart? Beer, 50c to $1. Ale, $1. to $1.25. Rye, $8. to $10. Scotch, $7 to $10. Gin, $4 to $10.

5. Do you get what you want without difficulty? Yes, 748. No, 56.

6. If you do not drink, check principal reason: Legal restriction, 16. Family, 19. Personal taste, 426.

National

1. Do you favor the continuance and strict enforcement of the 18th Amendment and Volstead Law?

Yes, 188. 2. Do you favor a modification of the Volstead Law? Yes, 720.

3. Do you favor a repeal of the Prohibition amendment?

Yes, 529.

Of significance in both Dartmouth and country-wide college votes are the returns that: although the majority of students did not drink before coming to college, the majority of undergraduates do so now; a large majority are in favor of the repeal of the 18th amendment.

Editorialising, The Dartmouth says: "If Prohibition means simply that men who don't wish to drink don't drink, and that men who choose to drink do so without hindrance except for the inconvenience of higher prices, then Prohibition as a noble experiment has proved itself a failure." We ask for statistics on the present number of pretzel-benders.