Word: local
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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WANTED. - A good talker to make a local canvas during vacation. Address P. J. Glynn, room 4, Franklin Block, Marlboro, Mass...
...true that of the older men, the graduates of Yale outnumber those from Harvard here in New York; but very soon after the accession of President Eliot, Harvard ceased to be a "local college," and since 1875 has drawn her students as widely from the different states as any other college, and the new influence has been especially marked in New York...
...Oberammergau journal with the hope that she will "try" to forget him. If the episode is founded on fact one must infer that writer and young lady had more than normal powers of impression and susceptibility. If it is fiction, it commits the sin of improbability. Certain touches of local color are well done...
...sympathy; but, granting that the South should win its independence, it was evident that the Northern and the Southern States would be driven by their permanent hostility to each other to change from the type of federal Union to that of consolidated governments. In this alteration all chance of local autonomy would disappear, probably never to exist again on this continent. Moreover, I saw plainly, as did every other rational person of my acquaintance, that the strife concerning slavery would afford a perennial source of war-breeding trouble between the North and the South...
...different nature, but fully as good in its way, is "Roland s Reform." It is thoroughly local in its character, the men in the story - the frank, apparently priggish but really joke-loving friend, and the fellow who indulges in a summer flirtation, unconscious of its serious results - are dyed-in-the-wool Harvard men, and the bits of description are quite cleverly done. The whole thing is true to the life here at Cambridge and the anti-climax is happy. It is perhaps the best thing its author has done this year...