The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-07-01


college students on the whole as there was
before prohibition"
University OF Illinois. Urbdna.
Dapid Kinley, President:
I'm my opinion. drinking among college
and university students is less than it used
to be- and the moral and scholastic level of
these students today is on the whole,
higher than that of the students of a gen.
Grafton ago."
Northwestern University, Evanston.
Walter Dill Scott, President:
"Since the passage of the Eighteenth
Amendment there has been less drinking,
but what there is has been more conspicu-
GUS"
Illinois Wonaan'S College, Jacksonville.
Clarence p. McClelldnd, President:
81 am positive that we have not a single
student who drinks. have been in school
and college work for thirteen years, and to
my great satisfaction, have seen moral
conditions improve steadily year by year.
Our youth are not blameless, but as COM
pared with us older people at their age,
they are certainly more healthy, more in
telligent, and more virtuous, but also-and
this is what disturbs uS-they are more
original, more independent, more Self-Suf-
ficient, and less like us than we expected
them to be-"
Northern Baptist Theological Seminary,
Chicago. George W. TAFT President:
"I have seen much less drunkenness in
Chicago on the West Side than saw in
the re-prohibition days. now will go for
months pursuing my usual avocations
without even seeing one very much under
the influence of liquor"
BroddUiew College, La Grange, III.
Thomas w. Steen, President
mo student is received into the inStitu-
ton who has previously used tobacco or
liquor without pledge on his part that he
shall never do SO while in the institution.
ANY violation of his promise is considered
sufficient reason for his dismissal"
Lincoln College. Lincoln.
A. E. Turner, President:
referring to your matter OF drinking
among American college undergraduates,
am entirely willing to subscribe to the SEN
timent you express in dissent from Mr.. Ro-
per's opinion and you are at liberty to
quote me to that effect" (NoTE: w. w.
Roper Princeton football coach, testified
recently that conditions are so bad he hes
itated to send his children to college)
The Chicago Theological Seminary,
Chicago Albert w. Palmer, President:
LAS 1 remember my own college days at
the university Oh OdlllOIitld anu CO1iApdAC
them with what I see of college life in
many universities today as I travel around
them, have no question that there is less
drinking today than in the prohibition
period"
Blackburn College. CdrlinUille.
VIM. NJ Hudson, President:
"There is absolutely no drinking on the
part of our Blackburn college students.
might add in addition to that, that there
is no girl enrolled here who smokes"
Illinois College. Jacksonville.
j. G.. AneS. Acting President:
81 am positive that there is much less
drinking than there was before the ma
tional prohibition amendment went into
effect, and I am glad to state that in our
student body of four hundred know of no
cases of drunkenness"
Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
Chicago. John Timothy Stone, President:
"In my judgment drinking is much on
the decrease on the campus. 1t is certainly
so in our UNCONVENTIONAL college and state
universities in the midwest This is very
noticeable at commencement time. Years