The CRIMSON, undoubtedly heartened by this display for lawlessness, conducted a poll in conjunction with fourteen other colleges; results showed that out of 24,000 votes, 15,000 of American college youth were willing to lose their reputation for virtue in order to support repeal or modification of the liquor laws. Pennsylvania, however, was the exception to the rule, and the Quakers registered a majority dry vote. Princeton, naturally enough, had the wettest vote. Over 79 per cent of the Tigers admitted that they drank.

Union for Freshmen

In April the Corporation acted on Lowell's recommendations and voted to use the Union as a freshman dining hall when the Yardlings eventually moved to the Yard, and later that spring names for the rest of the new Houses were voted on by the Corporation.

On the second of May, Bliss Perry, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English, gave his last lecture and retired. A great light of the Golden Age had dimmed.

"His students will remember him," the CRIMSON noted, "for the human quality which he never sacrificed for pedagogical catch-word or scholastic obscurity, for his ability to give life to past greatness, and for his capacity for enthusiasm."

The Great Depression crept slowly westward during the fall of 1930, but great men were speaking of an upturn, and optimism still gripped the public mind. Black Thursday was a year old, Europe seemed to be heading for hell, and Carl Joachim Friedrich, then an assistant professor of Government, stated "There is no probability at all of the establishment of a dictatorship in Germany."

Students Preoccupied

If the world was falling to pieces, few students at Harvard were bothered, or even noticed. Collegiate life went on as it always had in the past, except upperclassmen were now living in Lowell and Dunster Houses, and College life began to orient itself about the Houses.

The two upper floors of the IAB were opened at about the same time compulsory physical exercise was to begin for the freshmen. The new pool, the gift of one Alumnus Aquaticus, drew over 350 people a day to its waters. At Dunster House, it was reported, the students daily consumed the production of fifty cows and one hundred hens.

In November of that fall Lowell challenged Dunster to a football game. This was the first effort towards inter-House athletics, and the course of future inter-House athletic rivalry was set as Dunster defeated the Bell Ringers, 7 to 6.

Sophomore year for the Class of 1933 was also a year of considerable activity in athletics. Barry Wood '32 sparked a 13 to 0 victory over Yale, and Edward Casey '19 replaced Arnold Horween '20 as varsity head coach.

Princeton Returns

A four and one-half year athletic separation between Harvard and Princeton was terminated in February. Relations between Harvard and Princeton had been severed in 1926, following the Harvard-Princeton football game in Cambridge, which the Tigers won. Charges of dirty playing, a particularly violent issue of the Lampoon, the announcement that Harvard was planning to adopt a rotating schedule policy, and a growing feeling of hatred had brought about this break. The 1931 "accord" signalled the resumption of all contests but football.

In 1931, as in 1958, Memorial Church was the center of a storm of controversy. The church had not been completed then, yet considerable opposition to the construction of such a memorial existed; a petition, sponsored by the CRIMSON, was signed by some three hundred students, graduates, and faculty members who were "unalterably opposed to the present plans for a memorial in the form of a chapel."

Petition Circulated