Word: local
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...recent borough election in Princeton the students were urged by the faculty to take an active part in local politics. It was a contest between the students and the politicians, resulting in a victory for the students, the independent candidate for Mayor being elected by a large majority...
...University of Wisconsin. He gives a short sketch of the life of the University with brief histories of some of the most notable men who have been connected with it. William S. Nevins, the well known writer on witchcraft has an article on the importance of "The Study of Local History." One of the best things in this number is "Proportional Representation" by Stoughton Cooley. It is an able treatment of an important subject which is now a matter of interest to everyone interested in the purification of our politics. Samuel J. Barrows, editor of the Christian Register, contributes...
...University football team played a game with a local team yesterday...
...Melons," by C. M. Flandrau, is a clever character-sketch, full of local color, but with a deceptive title, for not fruit but the family and house of a western politician are the subject of the story...
...Union and suggesting sweeping changes in its constitution, why would it not be well for them to organize a new debating society altogether ? Two societies will increase the interest not twofold merely, but many fold. Each will stimulate the other. Joint debates might then he arranged between the two local societies as a preliminary to the Yale debate A new debating society is needed here at Harvard - not because the Union is a failure, for it is not. but because in a University of this size there is ample room for two; because two will raise the standard of debating...