Policeman Who Has Been on Cambridge Force for 40 Years Says Drinking at Harvard Greatly Decreased

"Drunkeness has apparently increased at Princeton, Harvard, and Yale," declared the New York Times in a recent editorial.

Captain Michael J. Brennan, of Station 1, however, on being questioned as to the truth of this sweeping statement, declared most emphatically, "There's no truth to it,--at least as far as Harvard is concerned," Captain Brennan then intimated that he had been a member of the Cambridge Police Force for 40 years and that be ought to know.

"If anything, the student body has improved, as far as that goes," he continued.

"Forty years ago, before Cambridge went no license that New York Times editorial of yours might have meant something. Then the basement of the Harvard Cooperative Society was a barroom, with pool rooms upstairs. Before 1885, when Cambridge went dry, there were seven licensed saloons in Harvard Square, and all the grocery stores sold liquor,--and that was about all the stores there were in the Square in those days.

"I consider that the present generation of Harvard students is very well-behaved," he concluded.