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...long been the custom in some of the older courses to prohibit return of the books. George L. Kittredge '92, Gurney Professor of English Literature, emeritus, never returned the books for his famous English 22, and Kirsopp Lake, professor of History, follows this practice in his Bible course...
Bill In Austin, a bill was introduced in the Texas Senate to prohibit newspapers from "displaying women's naked legs." Author of the bill was State Senator Olan R. Van Zandt, a blind...
...Tercentenary the keynote was a loud protestation of tolerance, liberalism, and fair play. Upon President Conant's return from England the issue must be put up to him frankly and squarely. Whatever lapses of virtue take place at Harvard can never be curtailed by a rule which does not prohibit but merely shouts out the terms: "DOUBLE OR NOTHING...
...been a great deal said about oil. The plain reason why an oil sanction was not put in force was that enormous quantities of oil came from a country that isn't a member of the League of Nations and which we had no reason to believe would prohibit the exportation of oil. This country is the United States...
...cotton. Last week news of the U. S. tariff boost caused Yoshihisa Shikamura, managing director of Japan's great Fuji Gas Spinning Co., to exclaim: "Our cotton industry will suffer a severe blow, and it is necessary to take immediate countermeasures. It would be impossible to prohibit all American cotton imports, but we can reduce them by 20% or 30%, by substituting cotton from Egypt, Brazil, Manchukuo and China...