The Drink Question at Stanford University.
We have previously mentioned the difficulty that the Stanford University has been having with the drink question among the students. There is a number of students that seem to think that to drink and carouse is one of their privileges and that this privilege must not be curtailed. But the evil had been carried so far that the faculty felt called upon to take a very decided stand against it, and to have drinking places driven away from the vicinity of the institution. When this stand was taken with a good, strong hand, a procession of students marched thru the university grounds, then to some of the professors' houses outside, and made a very clamorous protest against having their drink cut off. The country has had its eyes on Professor Jordan to see how stiffly he would stand against this drunken rowdyism. And while the students have tried to get up all sorts of scares, even threatening to have the whole school go on a strike and leave the institution without scholars, yet has he stood firm, and at the present writing it looks as tho the law-abiding element of the student body together with the faculty of the school would carry the day for good discipline. Personally Professor Jordan is a strong believer in the prohibition of the liquor traffic, and he should have the support in this crisis of all who know the benefits of temperance in building up strong manhood.