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...future students will have to walk to the post-office for their insured mail. This is the substance of a dictum just announced by C. R. Apted, Superintendent of Care-Takers of the University. On account of complaints which have been made of numerous lost letters and parcels, Mr. Apted has decreed that no janitor nor caretaker will hereafter be allowed to sign for registered letters and insured packages, with the result that students in College Dormitories will have to call at the post-office for them...
...much, for which he is fighting so hard has been pronounced a dead issue. President Coolidge, referring to the League in his message to Congress, said. "The incident, so far as we are concerned, is closed." Does Judge Clarke agree with him? Will he bow to this dictum? It will be interesting to bee how he refutes this sentiment in his speech tonight...
...giving this concert the Glee Club is following in the footsteps of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which has for some time given concerts at a nominal price for school children. There is far more truth than poetry in Plato's dictum that children should be stamped with good taste as soon as possible. Instead of coming down to the level of the audience with a rendition of "Barney Google," the Glee Club will put in practise the theory of educating the audience up to its level. If moving picture producers, radio story-tellers, and the raft of authors of children...
...Attorney General's dictum was apparently an outgrowth of the strong sentiment in the American Bankers' Association last year against branch banking; its alleged purpose was to strengthen the Reserve System. Such legislation is, however, distinctly dangerous to this very purpose, since national banks must compete with state banks, and if state charters allow more latitude than national, existing national banks will convert into state banks, as the Irving has recently done. The privilege of issuing banknotes yields so little profit to a national bank, that its surrender is not a serious consideration...
...cannot under the Federal law, and you cannot under the University law, bring intoxicating liquors into any building of the University. Whatever you may think of the Eighteenth Amendment or of the moderate use of liquor, this rule holds." Such, according to reports was President Angell's dictum to Yale Freshmen at his reception for the incoming class at New Haven. Violation of this rule, the made perfectly clear would bring about instant dismission...