Word: local
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...last number of the Advocate is a fairly good one. The editorials are far above the average, being on interesting although rather old subjects, and being written in a plain and straight forward style. With most of them we agree, but the one dealing with the "refusal of a local barber to shave a member of the University" is a rather flippant treatment of a serious subject. The "College Kodaks" which in this number follow the editorials are unusally bright. There are only three of them, but none falls flat and the second is really a very good story...
...Monthly for June contains a very interesting though short article on "The Future of Local Libraries," by Justin Winsor, the librarian of Harvard Library. Mr. Winsor's article is suggested by the recent action of the Massachusetts Legislature providing for the maintenance of small local libraries. He speaks at some length of the system adopted in France by the Societe Franklin and though their methods would probably not work satisfactorily if universally adopted here, there are many points in which we would do well to imitate them. It would certainly be a great improvement if all the small libraries here...
...look upon the insult offered to W. H. Lewis by a local barber as something out side of the ordinary case of trouble between a student and a tradesman. It is in one sense a private affair; in another it concerns the college at large. It is plain that the man who refused his accommodations to a student because this student was colored, did so because, in his opinion Harvard men themselves would draw such a distinction. In other words he catered to a snobbish spirit which he thought existed here at college. To outsiders, then, who may hear...
...State supervision and control is a direct step towards state centralization and the destruction of local autonomy. - (a) The modern state is unable to perform well its present functions - (b) The attention of the state in this matter is less harmful today than excessive intrusion: Beaulieu 156 - (c) All Anglo Saxon nations hold local self-government to be the essence of freedom...
...started in 1890 by Dr. William Pepper, provost of the University of Pennsylvania, to afford a system of instruction for adults, embracing lecture courses, with classes, exercises, examinations and certificates. The American Society for the extension of University Teaching, founded in 1890 by Dr. Pepper, has organized "local centres" in the neighboring states; and through branch societies and affiliated colleges has stimulated general diffusion of the system. The "Unit of Instruction" is a course of six or twelve weekly or fortnightly lectures, followed by a special conference or class. The "unit of organization" consists of a committee of citizens...