Word: local
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Princeton lacrosse team is practicing in a large local skating rink...
...absorbed in unobtrusive silence, and that their achievement will not attract any notable share of public attention, and that base-ball and boat racing will be studied with a fervor which cannot but trumpet the accomplishments of their classic followers to the notice and admiration of an expectant world. Local pride leans more kindly toward the victories of brawn than towards those of mind, and a college year is ever made more memorable by its athletic than by its intellectual victories. In the meanwhile, there are earnest and conscientious students who value college for the mental as well...
...mind, the other to the body, Harvard intellectual and Harvard athletic. But for the time at least Harvard athletic has more "fame" than Harvard intellectual; the athletes seem to be "bigger" men than the scholars, who very generally receive the hardly complimentary title of "grinds." It is truly said, "local pride leans more kindly toward the victories of brawn than towards those of mind;" but it is a mistake to suppose that Harvard men have no pride in intellectual attainments. The outside world seems to think that Harvard men are afflicted at heart with an indifference about all that...
...local items are the most attractive of all that we find in a western paper; and not only most attractive, but on the whole most instructive as well, in one way or another. Below are given some of these items, clipped quite promiscuously...
...hill-side is a picture that appeals to our most poetic natures. This item for a time completely absorbs our thoughts, until of a sudden we read with greatest surprise that "Miss Harris has a class in painting." The "fast express (limited)" brings us home with unpleasant haste. A local that is western becomes vividly eastern...