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Were Barnum alive today he would find great comfort in those brimming souls who canvassed the College of late vending blazing banners on which is writ that he who runs may read, "To Hell With Harvard." Some one has either a rather overwhelming sense of humor coupled with a genius for economics, or no sense of humor with an uncanny instinct for cash...
Arthur O'Brien, Irish republican, was deported by order of the Home Secretary. His friends in London discovered that under an old law no prisoner could be deported out of England. A writ of habeas corpus was upheld by the Court of Appeals...
...whether Monday morning coffee without sugar will prove attractive for more than one week. But, whatever may be the success of Mayor Hylan's scheme, his proclamation is very significant in one respect. It marks an appeal to the consumers rather than to the government. Twenty years ago a writ of injunction, under appeal to a superior court, would have quieted the public. Now the country has lost confidence in the effectiveness of governmental regulation of monopoly and is looking rather to the action of the consumer who controls the factor of Demand. It is futile to speculate...
...Biloxi, Miss., the United States Marshal was ordered by a writ of sequestration to "seize and bring into court" a 75 ton dead whale, as to the ownership of which there was a legal contest...
Paull Franklin Baum G. '12: The Principles of English Versification. A new consideration of English verse-writ- ing on the basis of recent psychological theories of rhythm and harmony...