Club May Apply For Cambridge Liquor License

The Faculty Club may soon add itself to the waiting-list of Cambridge liquor license applicants, Mason Hammond, Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, and a member of the Club's managing board, disclosed last night.

"If we find that the Administration would be willing to make up any deficit which the serving of liquor might incur," Hammond said, "the Club probably will try to get a license." Cost of a private liquor license in Cambridge is $1200, he added.

No legal difficulties are involved in granting the license to such a private club, the problem is only one of a long wait. Cambridge has a perpetually filled quota of licenses, and can only dispense more when active licenses are revoked or expire.

When asked if there were fear of moral censure from any group in the community, Hammond said he was certain that there was not. He added that the M.I.T. Faculty Club already has a liquor license.

Hammond gave no particular reason why the Faculty Club now wants to break precedent for an official liquor permit. "There was talk about it over the summer," Hammond remarked, "and a group of us wanted to sound out the Administration about it this fall."

Past managing boards simply have thought that the bother and expense of obtaining a license were too great, Hammond said. However, the present board thinks that a bar in the Faculty Club now would be used enough to warrant a permit, he added.