Word: local
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Professor. In finding longitude at sea, how do you compare your own local time with Greenwich time? Student. Put it down and wait till you get there...
...Prooemium. Harvardinus; the member of a gens of considerable local reputation; nearly allied to the Bavii; at enmity with Antonius Collis. Cf. Rat. Y I. C. I small print...
...third place, he argues that a college reward is of limited value, because the reputation accruing from it is of an almost purely local character, and that a contest open to all the colleges in the land would call forth more contestants and rouse more ambition on account of the widespread reputation which would crown successful competitors...
That the Museum has, in so short a time, risen from almost nothing to its present position should not be merely an object of local but of national pride. Fortunate it is, too, that an interest in these studies, and it is to be hoped not a temporary one, has sprung up, not only here but elsewhere, just at a time when metaphysical investigations are awaiting the solution of certain problems in Natural History...
...Goodwin was prevented by ill-health and stress of work from delivering the poem. This part was written upon very short notice by Mr. Osborne, and in spite of the difficulties attendant on this, he succeeded in producing as entertaining an occasional poem as we remember hearing. The local allusions, as he summed up the four years' experience of seventy-three, were capital, and the audience were very enthusiastic throughout. The introduction struck us as so excellent that we take the liberty of quoting...