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...usefulness of the Register, early or late, is beyond question, but that usefulness is greatly enhanced by its prompt appearance early in the college year. Its present status is a standing reproach to the Council as well as a serious inconvenience to the University...
...every hand law violation obtrudes its hideous head and blatant voice. A wet press and unfriendly magazine writers wrongly charge to prohibition scores of crimes and deplorable conditions; in any locality petty violations of the prohibition law can be greatly minimized if local sentiment expresses itself in prompt, constructive community action against them, rather than dissipating its energies in passive bewailing and garbled gossip...
...prompt action taken by an automobile mechanic employed by the Harvard Square Garage, yesterday put to flight the perpetrators of the first recorded attempt at captive balloon stealing...
...large yellow balloon, which has been floating lazily above the garage, was approached yesterday by several University students being initiated to a fraternity. The balloon had already been cut loose, and was, so it is reported, to be taken to the tower of Memorial Hall, when the prompt action of a mechanic foiled the blimp burglars. While he was getting help, the trespassers got rid of the evidence by the simple expedient of letting go of their prize. They made good their escape, and detectives employed by the Harvard Square Garage have failed to find any trace of either...
William Gurdon Saltonstall of Readville was elected President of the class of 1928 in the Sophomore elections, the results of which were announced last night. The most prompt and one of the heaviest votes cast by a Sophomore class was counted last night...