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prietor of which had set apart two or three tables
where "knights of the wassail," some casual, some
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.

The
carven
tables

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
tried to check the evil, but met with vigorous resist-
ance on the part of certain 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.

A
courageous
committee

This action led to a small but dramatic rebellion,
in the course of which the authorities felt obliged to

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Days of a Man: Being Memories of a Naturalist, Teacher, and Minor Prophet of Democracy. Volume: 2. Contributors: David Starr Jordan - author. Publisher: World Book. Place of Publication: Yonkers-on-Hudson, NY. Publication Year: 1922. Page Number: 253.
    
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