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Term Bill Paid... In Silver Dollars

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Spring weather and a minute knowledge of currency laws went to the head of Harold O.J. Brown'53 last Friday, as he walked into Lehman Hall with 670 silver dollars to pay his term bill.

University finance officials took a dim view of Brown's spring lark, and promptly provided him with a police escort to Dean Watson's office. Watson, conversant with fiduciary matters, gracefully accepted the silver dollars, explaining: "Refusal to accept legal lender in discharge of a debt would make that debt null and void."

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