Drunkenness among Students
By Editor
Drunkenness among Students.—A good deal of agitation is on at this writing over drunkenness among the students in Stanford University. President Jordan and some of his coworkers have been doing the very best they could to close saloons in the vicinity of the university and the town of Palo Alto. Outside of the university they seem to have been quite successful, but there are club houses and saloons in Menlo Park, not very far away, that run wide open. Just recently a member of a roistering party from one of these saloons coming home late at night intoxicated, entered the wrong house and was shot and killed as a burglar. Investigation since that time has shown that there are many who drink, and the action of the board of directors in calling for a cessation of the practise is met by threats of the student body to resign, at least so it has been reported. Matters are yet in an unsettled condition. For our part we hope that President Jordan and the faculty will stand for absolute prohibition of the liquor traffic in connection with the university itself, even if half the student body should leave the university. We believe it would be much more than made up by young men and women who have more regard for education than they do for drunkenness and reveling.