Do not abbreviate first names except in reproducing signatures, as, Wm. H. Taft, if Mr. Taft wrote it that way.
Abbreviate senior and junior with commas on each side, as John Jones, Jr., spoke.
Do not make Tom, Dan, Ben, Joe, etc., abbreviations unless you are sure they are. Alex Dow is written without the period.
Write S O S and similar telegraphic abbreviations, and I O U without periods.
Use Bros. only when firm name is so written.
Use ampersand (&) in firm name only when the firm uses it.
Abbreviate number when followed by numerals, as No. 10.
Spell out United States except in addresses or in army and navy phrases. Military and naval titles should be written thus:
- Adjt.
- Adjt.-Gen.
- Brig.-Gen.
- Capt.
- Col.
- Corp.
- First Lieut.
- Gen.
- Lieut.
- Lieut.-Col.
- Lieut.-Gen.
- Maj.
- Maj.-Gen.
- Private
- Q. M.-Gen.
- Q. M.-Sergt.
- Second Lieut.
- Second Sergt.
- Sergt.
- Sergt.-Maj.
- Surg.-Gen.
- Surg.-Maj.
Class of '08 may be used for Class of 1908.