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...seeking to have the ordinance declared void. It finally reached the U. S. Supreme Court, which last week handed down a decision upholding the validity of zoning regulations. Justices Butler, McReynolds and Van Devanter dissented. Forthwith, many villages and cities began to look at their skylines and contemplate more stringent regulations...
This exception to the usually stringent regulation in regard to personal occupation of seats at the Yale game is made this year only, because of the large number of seats available for Harvard allotment in the Yale Bowl. So many seats have been placed at the disposal of the Athletic Association that all applications from Harvard men, even those filled...
Prohibition. Measures alike for making the Volstead Act more stringent and making it more lenient were announced to be dead last week...
...ground up". Thus innumerable scions of wealthy American families have been transplanted from the flower bed of college to the vegetable patch of industry-and usually with beneficial results. Last spring The Nation advanced the theory that the whole body of college students are fit candidates for such stringent routine that they may face the "realities of industrial America." Therefore The Nation offered prizes to undergraduates who should perform manual labor during the summer of 1925 and describe their experiences in an essay. The winning articles are now being published, the first one written by a woman student of Antioch...
...pointed out that, because of stringent economy, our Army has now only 80% of the commissioned officers required for its peace strength; that it had become necessary to issue to enlisted men inferior equipment left over from the War; that the National Guard had grown beyond the limits set for it in current appropriations; that soon most of the veterans of the War would have reached such an age that we would be left without a reserve of citizens trained and with experience in the field. That some plan for building up a dependable reserve must be undertaken...