Officials Annoyed At Illegal Use of Corporation Seal

University Hall's irritation over the illegal use of the Harvard seal increased yesterday when it was found that a mutilated, "unofficial" Harvard seal was being utilized on commercial products, especially stationery, to evade a warning against "bootlegging" the official seal.

The Harvard seal is the usual coat of arms, containing the word "Veritas," encircled by the Latin engraving, "Sigilum Academiae Harvardianae in Nov: Ang:". The coat of arms without the inscription is perfectly correct for stationery, but with the inscription it should only be used by the University.

Up to the present, it was thought that the problem of keeping the seal off students' note paper was very nearly solved as the offending engravers and printing companies were traced and sent requesters to refrain from the practice of using the Harvard seal.

During the last week the Cambridge stationery stores were flooded with a letterhead very much resembling the Harvard seal. The catch was that the word "Academiae" was omitted from the inscription. But actually the omission of the word made the offense even worse, because it comes under the head of mutilating the seal.