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...Houses, however, in accordance with President Conant's recent ruling, will continue in their present status. Even before 1887 when Cambridge was wet, as far as any records show, students were never allowed to consume intoxicants in the dining halls. The subject has always been a matter of unwritten law in the University; but it is understood that, under the present emergency, a definite regulation will be written as soon as a permanent decision is made...
Representative Bolivar Kemp of the 6th Louisiana District died in June. In accordance with unwritten Congressional custom, Widow Lallie Kemp was endorsed by the Long faction to succeed him. Four other candidates also prepared to enter the primary to win a Democratic nomination which in Louisiana is the same thing as an election. Suddenly last fortnight, Governor Oscar Kelly Allen, a Longster, called a special election, to be held eight days after his proclamation. He boldly named Widow Kemp as "the unopposed Democratic nominee because there will not be time to hold a primary." At this latest piece...
...Professional football, I really believe, is much cleaner than college football," "Lone Star" continued in response to a query, "and it's clean for the reason that the pre players are fighting for their livelihood and any breach of the unwritten law results in the players being ganged. Among professionals there is a fact agreement not to resort to dirty factics. Because of this the coaches teach the players how to work just as effectively by playing clean. The men-cooperate by keeping in training and taking a genuine interest in the game. The result is that the game...
...what seems to be a sort of unwritten law among advisors, inquiring Freshmen are rarely if ever told that they may concentrate in History, English, or whatever other subject they desire and still enter Medical school as easily and as well prepared as the man who has left his den a Mallinckrodt only once or twice in four years. Nevertheless, it is quite possible so to plan a course that the minimum pre-Medical requirements may be got out of the way expeditiously, leaving sufficient time for the necessary courses in a non-scientific field. This scheme...
...Boston, where five months ago Hearst's American was ordered to pay $50,000 to Bonner, $4,200 to Griffith, the Washington newspapers loyally obeyed their unwritten law to ignore libel suits involving each other. In one particular, however, Hearst's Washington Herald broke the rule. When five of Plaintiff Griffith's nine counts were dismissed (he collected $250 each on the other four), the Herald blithely headlined...