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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 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.