Word: local
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 17, 1. A. M. For New England, fair weather, followed by increasing cloudiness in the southwest portion, local snows, variable winds, shifting to warmer southeasterly, lower pressure...
Chaff, the new illustrated monthly from the University of Pennsylvania, has started off very well, and we return its Christmas greeting with interest. Its illustrations are, as a whole, very good, though we are inclined to think some of its jokes too local. However, it has abundant good nature, and combines fact, fiction, and fun in a very satisfactory manner...
...easy to console ourselves by the thought that there is more strength in place of it. The Spectator, too, is well represented by some of the men whose work in the book of "College Cuts" is so singularly meritorious. Their connection with the paper will serve to counteract the local tendencies that might otherwise have been feared, and will be a sufficient guarantee for its cosmopolitan character. It is hardly necessary for us to add that we wish the new paper all possible success, and that in our opinion Life is most decidedly worth living...
...concerts for somebody else's benefit - but not for their own. But they are unable to receive more than their expenses for any concert they may give in other cities. All that is made over and above the actual cost of the trip must be turned over to the local management under whose auspices the entertainments are held. This is manifestly unfair to these organizations. At other colleges no such rule is in force, as far as we know. The Yale Glee Club recently gave a concert in Boston by which they must have made enough to pay a great...
SECTION 2. The object of this association shall be to build up a social and quasi professional friendship among its members, and to elevate the standard of college journalism, having due regard to local demands and differences...