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...hour examinations, looking so large down by the river, are of less concern elsewhere. The edict want forth three years ago that upperclassmen would not go on probation as a result of low marks in November. There was rejoicing and increased attendance upon the amusement palaces...
...other hand, if the decrease in enrollment is not traceable to the motor edict, the university will have same cause for wonder. It would seem that the circumstance must reflect discredit on either the attitude of the incoming freshmen or on the university authorities for some unknown cause. It is to be wondered which of the alternatives is the more salutary...
...late notorious Jesse James (1847-82). Lawyer James has said: "Jesse James with his brother Frank and a group of other Confederate soldiers, refused to admit defeat when the war was over, and carried on a guerrilla warfare until they were pronounced outlaws by an edict of the Government and rewards were set upon their heads. With all that has been written about father no one has ever, to my knowledge, accused him of cowardice or of breaking his word...
...wearing placards. The Princetonian (campus daily) headlined in its burlesque issue: "GAUSS'S SHAME." A senior, George Lambert, sporting scion of Listerine (mouth wash, etc.), inspired university admiration by bringing to town an airplane and droning over the campus in it. Airplanes were not mentioned in the Gaussian edict against motor vehicles...
...minute rides in commercial craft, just to fly over Nassau Hall and snap their fingers. Dean Gauss said nothing. Everyone felt sure that Dean Gauss would enunciate a new prohibition, but Dean Gauss said nothing-until last week, when he unexpectedly proclaimed an interpretation of his anti-motor vehicle edict which the laziest of campus sag-spines had to admit partook of Solomonic cunning. "We have so many machines on the ground," Dean Gauss began blandly, "that we do not bother particularly about those up in the air, as a fleet of pursuit planes would be needed for effective control...