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...guarantine edict announced by the Wellesley College authorities after the discovery of two light cases of scarlet fever last Tuesday will not affect commuters from Harvard and elsewhere, it became known last night. Wellesley girls have been urgently requested to avoid public places and public conveyances, but they will not be restricted to the college grounds and they will be allowed to receive visitors as usual...
...cats must be muzzled, said an official edict at Berlin. Any pussyfooted quadruped will be shot on sight if it is muzzleless. The measure was thought necessary owing to several cases of "feline hydrophobia" having been discovered...
...leading Paris couturier, whose clientele is chiefly American and English, has been forced to place signs in his fitting rooms that hereafter all customers must wear underwear. His dress measurers and saleswomen complained that many society women are dispensing with all undergarments following the latest style edict, which insists on supple, smooth lines...
...Testify or get out," was the edict which the New York Stock Exchange and the Curb Market gave to their members last week. Recent exposures of fraud on the part of stockbrokers (notably the case of E. M. Fuller & Co. of the Consolidated Stock Exchange) led to the attempt to " clean up " the exchanges. The Consolidated Stock Exchange is the one most vitally concerned, but the others are taking the cleaning up on their own shoulders...
...except the former members of the Oklahoma A. and M. classical department will be impressed by President Wilson's edict that the classics are dead. But there is a certain significance in the attempt to make the college a specialized institution. There is a clear tendency in that direction at present. The difficulties of President Atwood at Clark University (TIME, June 11), are due perhaps as much to opposition to the specialization of that institution as to hostility to Dr. Atwood's methods. And a great deal can doubtless be said for the specialization of various universities. There...