Beer-Drinking Test Ban
| (X.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, April 11. Cambridge University is to ban a traditional beer-drink-ing test—because today’s students cannot hold their liquor as well as previous generations.
I The ban puts an end to the 40-year-old club in King street Cambridge, a student beer-drinking society whose qualifying rule is that undergraduates have to down eight pints in a two-hour drinking marathon in the six public houses along King ftreet.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31032, 12 April 1966, Page 14
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