Elis Ask for Setups At Dances; Dean Says 'Let 'em Drink Punch'

Yale tipplers will probably have to stay satisfied with punch at college dances. A recent Eli student proposal to permit the serving of set-ups at college festivities has met with distinctly adverse faculty opinion.

The plan would make a college dance "resemble a fraternity or country club dance," declared Dean Harold B. Whiteman. A common punch bowl is what is generally acceptable to all shades of opinion, including the WCTU, he stated.

Replying to the criticism that the prohibition of anything stronger than punch was destroying interest in the college dances. Whiteman declared that "if we need liquor to sustain the college system then we had better abandon the college system."

On the other side, it was pointed out that "the duty of Yale is to give a social as well as an academic education to its students." Because Yale has an exceptionally high percentage of men who drink, the argument that the serving of who do not indulge, has little meaning. Eli senior John MacArthur remarked.