Word: local
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Though it could never be called great, yet for those who seek an entertaining narrative rather than one of literary strength, and for whom versatility of character offsets lack of depth, it might readily have considerable interest. To those who live in this neighborhood it will appeal by its local interest as well...
...books required may be most conveniently found. An investigator failing to find in one of these subscribing libraries a work dealing with his subject of research, may easily ascertain whether it is contained in the National Library by reference to these cards; and may, through the intervention of the local library, obtain the use of it under the system of interlibrary loan...
...apply this principle to taxation. In its light we see that we do not even approach justice in our methods of taxing. Even in local taxation, where we come nearest to justice, we tax only visible property. Our federal taxation is yet more unjust, for there we tax a man's needs, not his possessions. We have failed to secure an income tax. The nation has become unlimited where it deals with men, but limited where it deals with property. The government, in the hour of peril, may take men and stand them up against the enemies' guns...
...most important question that will come before the convention for final action is the decision on the proposed publication of a graduates magazine, to be modeled on the plan of the Harvard Graduates Magazine, with the excption that it is to be in no way a local magazine but must represent fairly each of the colleges in the Federation. This magazine is to be the official publication of the Federation, and its contents will be in the nature of articles on graduate study, graduate events and higher education in general...
These liquor monopolies might be either state or local corporations. But while such state corporations controlling the present traffic have many advantages, they are more rigid and less adapted to local conditions than local corporations. These local corporations, in which the profit is turned over partly to the state and partly to the community, adopted at the option of the voters in any given district, have in Norway and Sweden proved remarkably successful in reducing intemperance. There is every reason to believe that in this country also they would furnish the best possible method of dealing with the liquor problem...