Education: Liquor et Veritas

Here's to good old Yale,

Drink it down, drink it down.

—OldCollege Song.

The chaste Colonial premises of the Yale Divinity School will be occupied for six weeks this summer by the first session of Yale's new School of Alcohol Studies. Guiding spirit of the school is Yale's witty Dr. Howard Wilcox Haggard (TIME, June 29), professor of applied physiology, prominent U.S. exponent of the thesis that alcohol should be considered as calmly and scientifically as steam or potatoes.

About 75 students (selected from four times that number of applicants) will hear Dr. Haggard, who has dispassionately written of both inebriety and teetotalitarianism. Haggard points...

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