Word: local
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Bookman--"Local Colour and Some Recent Novels," by F. T. Cooper...
...stereopticon views how geologists have been able to determine the position of the vanished ice-sheet at various stages of its retreat across Eastern Massachusetts. The various topographical features of glacial origin will be pointed out, and the relations of inland towns and harbors to the control exerted by local glacial deposits will be indicated. The lecture will be open to the public...
...pleasant reminder of college days. It is only as a record of student life at Harvard that the Lampoon is worth while. Judged by this standard, the last number, through not extraordinary, agreeably justifies its existence. The pictures, for all their rather crude drawing, are good-natured and tolerably local. The text-Lampoon text has always consisted principally of "filling"-contains a divertingly new interpretation of a familiar phrase of Emerson's, and is generally and happily free from such faults of taste as often make humorous journalism repellent...
...best things in the paper are the first inner page, and the cloud in the centre page cartoon. The former, in its picture and in its text alike, is a pleasant example of good humoured, traditional local fun. The latter, in the midst of a generally clumsy drawing is a model of such friendly caricature as ought to be a permanent source of delight both to the subject thereof and to the numberless Harvard men in whose memory his kindly figure will always hover...
...recently made a careful inquiry into the needs of the postal service in the neighborhood of the College and as a result of that inquiry has decided upon certain improvements which will go into effect at once. Hereafter the Yard will have six deliveries a day, starting from the local Post Office at the following hours: 7.30 A. M., 9 A. M., 11 A. M., 1.30 P. M., 3 P. M., and 5 P. M. The additional trip, starting at 9 A. M., brings a part of the early morning mail that hitherto has been delayed until...