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Caption: Booklet - Guide for Daily Illini Reporters (1918)
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CAPITALIZATION CAPITALIZE: w i 1. All proper nouns, months, days of the week, but not the seasons. 2. Principal words in the titles of books, plays, lectures, pictures, casts, etc., including the initial "A" or " T h e " : "The Man from Home." 3. Titles denoting official positions, rank or occupation, when they precede a proper name: President Wilson, Dean David Kinley (but David Kinley, dean of the Graduate School). Avoid long, awkward sentences before a name, such as State Superintendent of Public Schools Francis G. Blair. 4. Distinguishing parts of names of associations, societies, leagues, companies, roads, lines and incorporated bodies: Louisiana State university, First National bank, Northwestern lines, Methodist Episcopal church, First Wisconsin volunteers. 5. Common nouns when they precede the distinguishing parts of names of associations, societies, companies, etc.: University of Illinois, Association of Collegiate Alumni, Bank of England. 6. Only proper nouns in geographical names, except when the common noun precedes or is used as part of a title: Rock river, Crystal lake, but Lake Michigan, Gulf of Mexico, Coney Island. 7. Only the distinguishing parts of names of streets, avenues, boulevards (when •spelled out) and houses, hotels, theatres, stations, wards, districts, counties, etc.: John street, Illinois Central station, Inman hotel, Third ward, Second district. 8 Common nouns when they precede the 11
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