ANNIVERSARY

This month marks the anniversary of beer's (legal) return to Hanover and to Dartmouth. Looking back over the past twelve months the aspect most noteworthy in the Dartmouth beer situation is undoubtedly the wisdom and foresight applied to the question by the Administration. With beer on sale across the River at White River and Norwich, Parkhurst reasoned that Dartmouth men, if they so desired, would be drinking beer. More significant, they saw that the prohibition of beer drinking in Hanover would only encourage the dangers involved in drinking in nearby towns and driving automobiles back to the College. So the College did not attempt to block beer sales in Hanover; they even opened their own College Tap Room to sell the beverage. This policy has not only kept undergraduates in Hanover, where administrative efforts (not in the least slackened) to maintain sober conduct are naturally more effective, but it has also solved with honesty and frankness a question that in many other schools has been evaded by inaction or hypocrisy.