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Why the Drinking Age Is 21 in the United States | Teen Vogue  Jul 17, 2016 ... But the legal drinking age wasn't set over medical reasons. ... However, as the legal drinking age fell across the country in the '70s, alarm bells started to go off, notes ... Along with Iceland, Japan, and South Korea, the U.S. is one of just a few ... It appears that these barriers are important for young people to...
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History of Alcohol Prohibition - DRCNet Online Library of Drug Policy  Thus, for a time, Massachusetts went so far as to prohibit the drinking of healths in 1638 ... Court records indicate that these laws were enforced with reasonable ... Strong Waters were formerly used only by the Direction of Physicians; but now ... Such was the first indication that the liquor industry in the United States would...
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Prohibition in the United States - Wikipedia  Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, .... On December 5, 1933, ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment repealed the ... Consumption of alcoholic beverages has been a contentious topic in America ... "Drunkenness was condemned and punished, but only as an abuse of a...
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A History of Radical Thinking: How Women Created Book Clubs ...  Sep 22, 2016 ... Book clubs today are so synonymous with women sipping Pinot Gris ... book clubs, but historically, the main constant in these groups hasn't ... is credited with starting one of the first major salons in Paris around ... It was called Sorosis (after a fruit that is formed from many flowers), and once it formed in 1868,...
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History of North American fraternities and sororities - Wikipedia  The North American fraternity and sorority system began with students who wanted to meet ... The Phi Beta Kappa Society, founded on December 5, 1776 at the College of ... In 1826, a man named William Morgan professed himself to be a ... The first Greek letter women's fraternity, Chi Theta Delta, was formed in 1856 at...
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Phi Beta Kappa Society - Wikipedia  Homepage, pbk.org. The Phi Beta Kappa Society () is the oldest honor society for the liberal arts and sciences ... Founded at The College of William and Mary on December 5, 1776, as the first collegiate Greek-letter ... The group consisted of students who frequented the Raleigh Tavern as a common meeting area off the...
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The Hasty Pudding Institute of 1770 by Aisha Bilwani on Prezi  The Hasty Pudding Club was started by Horace Binney for Harvard Students on ... This club is known to be the oldest social club in the U.S. and the first coed club on ... Hasty Pudding Institute of 1770 is an organization at Harvard University in ... It consists of the Hasty Pudding Club, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, and the...
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History | The American Whig-Cliosophic Society  The American Whig-Cliosophic Society is the oldest college literary and debating club in the United States. Originally two separate groups, Whig and Clio (as...
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Chautauqua - Wikipedia  Chautauqua was an adult education movement in the United States, highly popular in the late 19th and early 20th ... The first Chautauqua, the New York Chautauqua Assembly, was organized in 1874 by ... The Chautauqua movement may be regarded as a successor to the Lyceum movement earlier in the 19th century.
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Religious - Social Welfare History Project  Religious organizations have been a powerful influence in American social welfare ... in the Second World War (1941-1945) there were over 1,500 clubs operated ... New York CityAfter its official opening at 9 Second Avenue on February 15, 1923 .... (NCCS) served the spiritual, social, educational, and recreational needs of...
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BPOE "Elks" - RGHF  Jul 27, 2011 ... Elks Lodge or simply The Elks) is an American fraternal order and social club ... The Elks organization was founded in New York City on February 16, 1868 under the name "Jolly Corks" by 15 actors, entertainers and others...
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The Temperance Movement and Prohibition - Dictionary definition of ...  Definition of The Temperance Movement and Prohibition  Our online dictionary has ... makes, sells, or transports alcohol illegally; the term originally referred to hiding or ... was named for a similar revival in the American colonies during the 1700s. ... Concerned citizens formed societies to aid the poor, to house and educate...
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Voluntary Committee of Lawyers - Wikipedia  The original Voluntary Committee of Lawyers (VCL) was founded in 1927 to bring about the repeal of prohibition and the Volstead Act. The VCL provided legal support for the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, an umbrella organization that opposed prohibition.
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Phi Beta Kappa Society - Wikipedia  The Phi Beta Kappa Society () is the oldest honor society for the liberal arts and sciences ... Founded at The College of William and Mary on December 5, 1776, as the first ... societies and remains the oldest existing American academic honor society. ... :5 Whether the students organized to meet more freely and discuss...
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Honor society - Wikipedia  In the United States, an honor society is a rank organization that recognizes excellence among ... Chiefly, the term refers to scholastic honor societies, those that recognize ... Some honor societies are invitation only while others allow unsolicited ... In America, the oldest academic society, Phi Beta Kappa, was founded as a...
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Students for a Democratic Society Facts, information, pictures ...  Gradually, a core of articulate student leaders emerged who were interested in such issues as civil ... SDS sponsored a march on Washington in April 1965, the first national ... The organization became progressively more radical in the late 1960s, cutting its ... SDS split into two groups at its annual convention in June 1969.