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“One of the most scandalous outrages of the current year,” circa 1933

I’m fairly sure lots of people drank beer off campus but these guys got busted:

I haven’t been able to find out whether they were allowed back in the dorms but I’d bet you  they weren’t. It sounds crazy to us these days but with some gradual loosening over time this kind of rigid regulation went on for decades.

I don’t know about you guys but to me Lauterbach looks old enough to be trusted with a beer:

Bonus: I can’t resist pointing out that the Dean at the time would have been Harry Weiser, last seen here at the Colloid Chemists Convention in Chicago, 1946.

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