Word: local
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...especially important when considered in connection with college journalism. Women at college mean a much wider field for the work of the college editor, for they afford him readers for his "Fashion Notes," and "Society Happenings," and never leave him in want of spicy items for his "Local Column." What a strong argument for co-education these considerations suggest! Supposing college journalism worth encouragement, we can hardly find a better way of encouraging it than by admitting women to the colleges. Under co-education, a college editorship meets with comfort and ease, and has a far wider field...
...western papers are not much different from those nearer home. Complaints, wise suggestions in matters of college government and undergraduate conduct, sarcasm, good and bad taste, mighty phillipics, extravagant "swipes," are as prevalent there as here. There seems to be, however, a tendency towards meddling with politics, national or local. The little journal swells out enormously, and disagrees most decidedly with a recent appointment at Washington, or thinks that the city had better "begin work on the grading" of such and such a street as soon as possible. The current number contains its Thanksgiving editorial, and the reader almost sees...
...closing, I will add the names of some of the bills which have been introduced and debated: Bill 3, on Nisaragua Canal; bill 4, Local Option; bill 5, Increase of U. S. A. Navy; bill 9, for repealing title A, U. S. Statutes; bill 10, to admit ex-Presidents to Senate...
...Harvard who are anxiously awaiting a chance to bestow large fortunes upon the university. Under such favorable circumstances it seems as if something might be done that would add a charm to many a man's student life, and also save him from the positively cruel knives of the local landlords...
...ancestors of a later date did not have anything worth being grateful for until the adoption of the Constitution in 1789. Moreover, for a long time after the Revolution, the official observance of Thanksgiving was confined to New England, and the first Thursday of November was generally selected. Various local customs existed throughout the country during this time, but very slow were the Governors, especially in the southern states, to appoint a day by official decree. New York took up the custom in 1817, but often faltered in expressions of thanks in the succeeding years...