Liquor et Veritas

Here's to good old Yale,

Drink it down, drink it down.

--OldCollege Song.

The chaste Colonial premises of the Yale Divinity School will be occupied for six weeks this summer by the first session of Yale's new School of Alcohol Studies. Guiding spirit of the school is Yale's witty Dr. Howard Wilcox Haggard (TIME, June 29), professor of applied physiology, prominent U.S. exponent of the thesis that alcohol should be considered as calmly and scientifically as steam or potatoes.

About 75 students (selected from four times that number of applicants) will hear Dr. Haggard, who has dispassionately written of both inebriety and teetotalitarianism. Haggard points to alcohol's good points ("the safest of all sedatives") and gives scientific reasons for tolerating an occasional cocktail or schooner of beer. Besides Haggard, the school will have 20 lecturers. Students will include clergymen, probation officers, school administrators, teachers, welfare workers. Typical accepted student is Michigan's Liquor Control Commission's research director, Lawrence McCracken.

The school is an outgrowth of Dr. Haggard's Laboratory of Applied Physiology and his Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol. Teamed with him in all three is Physiologist Elvin Morton Jellinek. Says Dr. Haggard: "This school is not financed by liquor interests nor by the drys, but out of the regular Laboratory research funds." The curriculum will include: physiology national and class liquor attitudes and practices; traffic problems; relations of personality to alcohol; suicide; crime; heredity; temperance movements; social control; legislation; church strategy.

Said the Harvard Crimson of Yale's interest in alcohol: "Significant. . . ."

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