New Haven, Conn., Jan. 18--The moderate wets at Yale won a decisive victory in the prohibition poll held here yesterday, according to figures announced early this morning by the Yale Daily News. The Bok Peace Plan was endorsed by a vote of nearly two to one.
The total vote including all departments of the University was 977 for light wines and beers, 568 for rigid enforcement, and 525 for repeal of the 18th amendment. The strongholds of the wets were the college and the Sheffield Scientific School. Even the Freshmen were overwhelmingly in favor of the pre-Volstead regime.
The Graduate Schools were the chief source of strength for the dry element. As at Harvard the graduates went on record in favor of rigorous enforcement, although the beer and light wine proposal found many adherents.
The ballot of the faculty was so incomplete as to be of little significance. The returns show only 37 faculty members voting. These were about evenly divided between the desire for rigorous enforcement and the desire for wines and beer.
The Medical School vote shows that future doctors at Yale are more perturbed by the baneful effects of alcoholic stimulants than were the future M. D.'s at Harvard last week. The Medical School vote was strongly in favor of rigorous enforcement.
The complete vote follows:
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