Word: local
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...opening of the new library building at the University of Michigan on the 12th of December," says a writer in one of the New York dailies, "was an event of more than local interest. The friends of the large number of students at the university will be glad to learn that the rooms in the law building, which for twenty years have afforded shelter and meagre accommodations for the general library, have at length been surrendered to the exclusive use of that department of the institution for which the building was originally designed. A little more than two years...
...barriers between the two cities broken down. Already the two are practically one in all respects save that while Cambridge is more and more reserved for use as a residence suburb and a university town, Boston is more and more becoming a commercial metropolis and center of business. The local business of Cambridge has of late years indeed been of very slight account. Even retail tradesmen, in the vicinity of the college at least, have been few in number. A great part of the custom of students as well as of citizens has been transferred to Boston. Only recently...
...February 22, to the stern calendar in vogue here, and Saturday shines not as a holiday. Even the founder's day of certain Northern colleges is denied the plodding student. One would say that he ought to get through with an immense deal of work, and the local legend is certainly to that effect. The seriousminded alumnus of the University of Virginia assumes a fine disdain for the lotus-eating students of Harvard, Yale and Columbia. If one may take the examinations propounded here as a criterion, every Northern collegian will doubtless be willing to admit that it cannot "seem...
...compelled by law to make a sworn statement. Should any expenditure be made for bribery or other than legitimate expenses, an appeal is made to the courts, and should the charge be fully substantiated the member loses his seat. The candidate is also assisted in his canvass by a local committee which directs its energies toward bringing out a large vote, a thing which is very difficult to do, and consequently on its success in this direction depends materially the result of the election. Legitimate campaign expenses, it may be said, consist principally in advertising, printing, traveling, hiring of halls...
...younger generation than the universal eagerness shown by the students of every American college of note, almost without exception, to see and listen to the great apostle of sweetness and light. Where arrangements have not been made for Mr. Arnold to lecture by the college or by the local authorities, it is noticeable that measures have been taken at almost all colleges by the students themselves to secure that privilege, as was the case first at Harvard. No suggestions have ever met with such unanimous approbation from the college press as those tending to this effect. Our exchanges from Yale...