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...dictum, according to the Daily Princetonian, does not apply to drinking in rooms or in beer-halls such as the revered Nassau Tavern. It is particularly aimed at the practice of throwing beer cans and other containers at participants in sporting events...
...dictum had provoked 750 Yale men into sending a petition to Vassar last month begging the release of the girls for New Haven's Derby Day, which also falls...
...such barbarism, cried Supreme Court Justice Luis G. Corona, the death penalty for murder, outlawed in the federal district since 1929, ought to be reestablished. Said the conservative Excelsior. "Society is handcuffed before the criminal, and the prestige of the country demands stronger methods. The [Porfirio] Díaz dictum-catch in the act, kill on the spot-unquestionably yielded better results. ... It is urgently necessary to teach a lesson to potential murderers by means of heavy punishment." Abreast of current opinion, a Pittsburgh electric supply house sent down a catalogue showing the latest thing in electric chairs...
...plays were going to be put on in Sanders, somebody would have to build a proscenium arch with an asbestos curtain. The president of HTW suggested that the inspector inform the University on this point, but as yet no one has heard anything about it. But the "no scenery" dictum still stands...
Some College observers felt last night that the Council's work on the subject merited approval despite Reynolds's dictum. The Council, they argued, had (1) brought the seriousness of the European situation to the entire student body, and to the attention of the entire study body, and (2) presented the College with its first concrete system for saving wheat...