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Before a Congressional Commission investigating land grants to the Northern Pacific R. R., one D. F. McGowan, attorney for the Forestry Service, declared that a comma in legal writing may mean as much money as a cipher on the left side of a decimal point...
Specifically, his point was that the omission of a comma in a long sentence in the Land Grant Act of 1870 enabled the Northern Pacific R. R. Co. to withhold land from settlers longer than had been intended by Congress. To support his argument, Mr. McGowan produced a letter giving a grammatical analysis of the disputed sentence, signed by Tucker Brooke (ex-Rhodes Scholar and Editor of The American Oxonian), Secretary of the English Department at Yale, and Prof. George H. Nettleton, Chairman of the Department...
...unwisely threw to second too late to get Farrington. Howard muffed the ball, which rolled to left field, allowing both men to advance. Fish, who had struck out twice previously, singled between third and short, scoring two runs. Fish came in a minute later on a single by McGowan...
...lineup that took a 6 to 3 defeat from the Crimson last year, as was Robinson. HARVARD BOWDOIN Zarakov 3b. s.s. Nichols Bennett c.f. c.f. Dagett Ellison r.f. l.f. Farington Todd l.f. 1b. Small Hammond 2b. r.f. Fish Coady 1b. c. Blake Howard s.s. 2b. Lord Hoffman c. 3b. McGowan Spalding p. p. Robinson
...skating, 100-yds., paced: Everett McGowan of St. Paul, 4 1/5 sec., in Pittsfield, Mass...