Word: local
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Catchings in the second rebuttal speech for Harvard, again declared the question inferred that where no national law is violated the President ought not to have the proposed power. The laws that have to do with our local needs ought to be in the hands of men who best know those needs. The affirmative to prove their case must, he said, prove that local self government is a failure. To grant the proposed discretionary power to the President means the establishment of a centralized government...
...discretionary power of a military officer create in time of peace a martial law justifiable only as a last resort in time of war. But of more significance is the fact that interference by the central government, firstly, vitally weakens the salient feature of American government--the local control of local matters; and, secondly, it undermines one essential of every good government-- control in particular matters by those people who posses most information about them. A national feeling prompting interference is based on indirect information, not on direct knowledge--local interests arise from direct knowledge. The people of a section...
There is just enough local color in two of the five contributions to the November Illustrated Magazine to save the whole number from a failure. The illustrations--the principal reason for the existence of the magazine--are, excepting the frontispiece, diminutive, indistinct and ordinary. The review of the football season is choppy and not always in good English; while "The Spirit of Football" is pointless from first line to last. Though timely in choice of topic, the editorials are inadequate in treatment and betray an attempt at force by the too common artifice of writing...
...them it will depend for its active support in the future. What they ask and what they must have is an opportunity to meet in competition others of their kind who have had the same rowing experience and whose ideals of the sport are similar to their own. The local regattas of the various associations do not exactly fill the needs of these men. The National Regatta, while an admirable and indispensable fixture, does not appeal to this body of men who, for the most part, have no aspirations for championship honors...
...Piece of Undergraduate Heresy," is perhaps of more local interest in the Advocate Sanctum than for the general reader...