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PROHIBITION OF CREDIT.

An Act of the Legislature prohibits merchants and others, under severe
penalties, from crediting students. The license to contract debts, which


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the chairman is authorized to grant, is confined (except when the parent
or guardian requests otherwise in writing,) to cases of urgent necessity;
and these, it is hoped, parents and guardians will as far as possible prevent
from arising by the timely supply of the requisite funds.