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...Fancy spellings" are spellings employing unnecessary letters, as "catalogue," "shoppe," "favour...
...General Andrews, assistant secretary in charge of prohibition, and Major Haynes, "acting" commissioner of prohibition, has adopted the logical way out of the trouble caused by the continual disagreement of these men. There was an impasse predicted when General Andrews was first removed to a less active position, in favour of an official actively- supported by the AntiSaloom League. Only when he issues his statement of the situation during his two years in office will some light be thrown on the processes which underlie the great task of enforcement...
Circulation of a petition to obtain 500 signatures in favour of the opening of University dining hall next year has been halted. It was learned last night. A. G. Hart '30, in charge of the petition, the declared that there had not been a sufficient number of signatures to permit the submission of the petition, declared that there had not been a sufficient number of signatures to permit the submission of the petition to President Lowell this spring in order to permit the completion of the new dining hall next year...
Then arguments of the 101 college professors who have signed a statement in favour of immediate arbitration with Mexico on the question of alien land rights are very much to the point. These men feel that immediate action is necessary before the issue "becomes one of national pride and sentiment", and before "feeling may be aroused which will make impossible the judicial settlement now possible." Professorial arguments may not have been of much influence in United States foreign politics, but at least they cannot be regarded as emanating from men who are uninformed...
...Ferguson has surrendered the governorship of Texas in a blaze of notoriety. During her term of office she has evinced an almost complete lack of executive ability and a strange predilection in favour of prisoners, over 3000 of whom she has pardoned. By a probably unprecedented reverse English on petticoat government, she is said to have been misdirected by her husband, former governor James Ferguson...