Wellesley Joins College Conga for Lures of Vino with Veritas Chaser

Alcohol has entirely supplanted the goldfish on the national college palate, according to Mildred McAfee Horton, president of Wellesley College. In addition, she warned 750 women attending a New York luncheon last Saturday, that campus atmosphere cannot improve so long as "parents send girls to college for opportunities to meet Harvard men," and other non-academic pursuits.

No better are the "cultural possibilities of Poughkeepsie" than Boston, she continued, where Vassar has a thriving nucleus of male veteran students.

Trouble With Women is Men

Dean of Radcliffe College Mildred P. Sherman last night did not place the responsibility on women students for the current collegiate detour on the pinted path of dalliance. "I think college men are drinking too much," she asserted.

This general impression of the American college man was supported by first hand evidence by a Whitman Hall junior yesterday afternoon, who found "more drinking at Harvard parties than I've ever seen before."

Dean Sherman conjectured that the increment in college imbibing might be due in part to the enlarged veteran complement. Servicemen's threats have been inured to such potent potions as "jungle juice" and the high concentrations achieved by amateur distillers with fermenting fruit in closed gasoline tins. Such concoctions passed the "pressure purity test" when they blew off the sealed lid.

President Horton stressed in her talk a fact well known to dwellers on the Charles by the end of their first term, when she noted that the town and college of Wellesley are as dry as a dehydrated macadamian nut.

But she admitted that "the girls away from college are drinking more than they used to." Whether exclusively in the company of Harvard men she did not go on to say.