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MANUAL OF STYLE: CAPITALIZATION
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the Faculty of the College of Commerce and Administration (but: the faculty); the President, the Registrar, Professor of Physics, Assistant in Chemistry, Fellow, Scholar; the Van Husen Scholarship (but: the scholarship); courses in Political Economy, Autumn Quarter (but: a quarter), First Term (but: two terms; major, minor); [Hall (referring to the University dormitories)].

Use Capitals and Small Capitals for —

50. The names of town and state in the date line, and the salutatory phrase at the beginning, of letters, and the signature and residence at the end of letters or articles, etc.:

Chicago, Ill., January 1, 1911

(Set to the right, with one em's indention, and preferably in smaller type than the body of the letter.)

My dear Mr. Smith:

(Set flush, followed by a colon, in the same type as the body of the letter, and in a separate line, unless preceded by another line giving the name and address, in which case it should be run in with the text of the letter, indented as a paragraph [see 64].)

Charles W. Scott

(Set to the right, with one em's indention, and in the same type as the body of the letter or article.)

Harvard University
Cambridge, Mass.
June 7, 1911

(Set to the left, with two ems' indention, in smaller type.) (Each line of the address should be in caps and small caps, and should be centered on the one preceding. The date