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...unreasonable restraint of trade illegal. In the Northern Securities case the Supreme Court seemed to favor the first opinion, but in its latest decision it takes sides with those who would allow reasonable restraint. The decision will not cause a wholesale dissolution of holding companies and of combinations to prevent competition, but will make it necessary to try each case on its own merits and force out of existence those companies which break the anti-trust law and restrain trade unreasonably...
Unlike the Junior Dance in the Union, the floor is excellent and is quite large enough to prevent any possibility of over-crowding, the decorating of the boxes is attended to by the committee (free of charge), and a very competent corps of ushers has been selected from the cream of the class of '12 to take charge of all the details on the night of the dance. In fact all that the Seniors have to do is to secure their tickets at once, invite their three best girls, send their names to the committee, and I will...
...undergraduate morals; it is, say its opponents, a system which puts too much strain on the student; the average man is not yet fit to bear the responsibility. Still, they admit its value in theory. Therefore, being, as it is, an advance on an ancient and artificial scheme to prevent cheating, it should immediately recommend itself to the less conservative and more progressive elements at Harvard...
...taking books from libraries, or tearing pages out of books for other people's use as well as their own, . . . why men do not hesitate to hand in other men's theses signed with their own name, . . . why men get other men to sit in their seats to prevent being marked absent, the reason why they will read off another man's paper in a test or even out and out 'crib' in an examination, is the same in each case. Because the rest of the undergraduates . . . do not think any the less of a man for doing...
...purposes of these recommendations are to prevent fire and smoke from spreading rapidly from rooms to halls and from halls to rooms; to prevent fire and smoke from spreading rapidly from basements to halls; and to give a prompt general alarm in case of fire in a hallway, and to supply a means of giving a general alarm in case of fire anywhere...