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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next to ignoring Prohibition, the most polite and popular form of U. S. lawbreaking is Beating the Customs. Prime practitioners, in the amateur field, are wealthy ladies who count it a fashionable triumph, indicative of cleverness, to succeed in smuggling personal purchases made abroad, with the sporting risk of paying a 100% fine if caught. One-quarter of fines imposed goes to informers who tip off Customs inspectors. No smart smuggler will tell her best friend, until afterwards. This, the summer season, with tourists jamming every liner, is the time when inspectors are busiest, ladies most cunning...
...only time all season, and playing the invaders' running attack to a standstill. Had it not been for a pair of fumbles and two bad passes from center. Harvard might well have come out on top; instead of on the short end of a 15 to 0 count...
First places only will count in the meet scoring, except in case of a tie in first and then the meet will be decided on second places. A rough chart of performances would indicate that the Americans will get at least six first places, and that they can win on second places. An optimistic chart would give the Harvard-Yale team seven first places and nine second places it follows...
Only First Places Count...
...these facts. The income from funds which have been given for the purchase of books is not nearly $65,000 annually, this year's income being about $10,000 more than two years ago, as a result of recent large gifts. This annual income is what the Library can count on regularly, for book buying. In addition to this, the experience of recent years justifies the expectation that special gifts for immediate use will provide from $15,000 to $20,000, the average of the past few years, which can be used to take advantage of special opportunities to enrich...