Word: local
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bill passed without amendment. It was largely increased in the Senate, and finally settled in the conference committee. He then discussed what he called the moral character of the bill. It was not extravagant in comparison with previous bills, but it contained many items which were plainly for local improvements in unknown places. He showed a map on which a red wafer marked each place for which appropriations were made by the bill, and mentioned among others Mispillion Creek, Carrituek Sound, Coanjok Bay, Chefuncte River and Bogue Phalia, and proposed to turn over to the Modern Language Association the Skagit...
...team played its first game at Lawrence last Saturday, and succeeded in winning a victory from the strong local team. For Harvard, Capt. Ellis and Quimby did some good work at the bat; the bowling and fielding, too, were a credit to the college team. Below is the score...
...Harvard stands as the embodiment of Boston and Boston's peculiarities. For that reason she is assailed, but with an animosity which is far out of proportion to the Boston element in our population. But the New York press would do well to remember that Harvard is not a local affair although the prevailing influence here may come from the shores of Massachusetts Bay. Hence if they have any spite to vent upon this section of the country a much better way of doing it is open to them than the unconsidered one which they have chosen to adopt...
...tendency to foster ill will, and controversy between two colleges. In days gone by the college paper would comment on the discourtesy shown in failing to applaud good plays of the college opponents, while now the zeal of the paper is expended in cultivating the most aggravated form of local and selfish applause...
...Congress which granted extravagant pensions to the surviving veterans of the Mexican war. It is important for us to remember that the soldiers which the Dependent Pension hill was designed to aid, have to be supported anyhow; it is merely a question whether it shall be done by our local authorities, or by the national government which those men fought to rescue and preserve...