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prietor of which had set apart two or three tables The 

 where "knights of the wassail," some casual, some ^'^'■J"" 

 chronic, had carved their names in pioneer days, thus 

 giving to the place a halo of tradition. The proprietor 

 afterward removing to a roadhouse farther on, the 

 table tops descended to "Charley Meyer," a kindly 

 and adroit German who furnished each year a new 

 one, until a dozen or more bore the names of well- 

 known collegians. 



Mayfield had by this time become an offense in 

 more exclusive circles. But upon its incorporation 

 as a small city Professor Arthur B. Clark served as 

 first mayor, and by special ordinance closed its dozen 

 or more saloons and bars. "Charley" then went 

 perforce to Menlo, whither student conviviality 

 promptly followed and where it duly rose to the 

 dimensions of a public scandal. 



The faculty committee on student affairs now a 

 tried to check the evil, but met with vigorous resist- <=°^^°-?>eou5 



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ance on the part or certam young men, even from a 

 considerable number who were themselves abstainers 

 and totally opposed to student drunkenness. "Teach- 

 ers should attend strictly to their own work," they 

 said, "and have no right to use other than moral 

 suasion in behalf of sobriety." This point of view 

 naturally did not appeal to president and faculty, 

 who were officially responsible for the discipline and 

 reputation of the institution. Accordingly the com- 

 mittee, then headed by Clark, passed an order for- 

 bidding students to visit saloons, while at the same 

 time they tried rigidly to enforce the old rule pro- 

 hibiting the presence of alcoholics in chapter houses. 

 This action led to a small but dramatic rebellion, 

 in the course of which the authorities felt obliged to 



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