Part 28 (1/2)

To be paid for at usual Written for The Outlook rates, or to be returned with the ten (10) cents in stamps enclosed, to Arthur W Milton, 582 Wilson Street, Des Moines, Iowa

CONFESSIONS OF A FRESHMAN

Why I Was Dropped Froe at the End of My First Year

By Arthur W Milton

(Note This article is based on the writer's own experience in a large Middle Western state university, and the statistics have been obtained froistrars of four state universities It contains 2,750 words)

Four (4) Photographs are Enclosed, as follows:

1 How I Decorated My Roo to Play My Ukelele

3 When I Made the Fresh For My Final Exaazine has its own distinct typographical style in capitalization, abbreviation, punctuation, hyphenation, and the use of nuures So rules for the preparation and editing of copy A careful reading of several issues of a publication will shoriter the salient features of its typographical style It is less iraphical peculiarities of any one publication than it is to follow consistently the commonly accepted rules of capitalization, punctuation, abbreviation, and ”unrefore end with a complete sentence At the close of the article it is well to put the end mark ()

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