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...rule-books stand many quaint restrictions hanging over from the crabbed past-curfew hours, the wearing of gowns (however abbreviated and however disreputably tattered), places to be seen in and not to be seen in, absence from town and other critical matters. Last fortnight a little grey pamphlet made its appearance in Oxford, containing many of these old rules, resurrected from ancient domesday books and dusted off, or written freshly to meet modern conditions. The booklet was entitled Memorandum on the Conduct and Discipline of Junior Members of the University (i.e., undergraduates) and set forth...
...Guthrie asks the deletion of the statement, which appears in a campaign pamphlet of the Endowment Fund Committee, on the ground that it gives a false impression that it was made after Mr. Taft became chief justice. W. M. Powell '96, chairman of the committee, has refused to omit the statement, and Mr. Guthrie wrote him yesterday, stating his reason for asking for the withdrawal of the phrase...
...little yellow pamphlet, but Harvard men saw red. The Next President of Harvard: A Prediction, said the title. The author was that suspicious creature, a pseudonymity; in this case, "Dolopathos," meaning "Suffering Slave," or as more cheerful souls who had forgotten their Greek translated, "Bad News." The publishers were S. Baldwin & Co. of Cambridge, a non-luminous fact. "Abbott Lawrence Lowell, President of Harvard," read the first sentence, "will be 70 years old on December 13 of this year." What axiom could be more harmless? "He has occupied his high office for 17 years, has accomplished many striking and notable...
Thus protected from such scalawaggishness, the prudent housekeeper studied another pamphlet issued, in this case, by Secretary Jardine himself. It gave exact definitions of various kinds of meats and meat products, among others...
...been announced by the Chairman of the Committee on Instruction that no further edition of the pamphlet containing the list of Courses of Instruction dated September 15, 1926, will be issued...