Word: local
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...John Koren, in his lecture last night on "Wisdom and Unwisdom in Liquor Legislation," said that the trend of the wise liquor legislation of the future would be in the direction of local monopolies, established by local option, for the control of the liquor traffic under stringent restrictions and with practically no private profits...
Prohibition, he said, cannot solve the liquor problem. State prohibition is already a policy of the past, for while it has been tried in fifteen states, it exists today in only five; and in these states the prohibitory laws are scandalously administered. Local prohibition has been successful in many rural districts, but has proved ineffectual in towns and cities. Prohibition has failed, because it does not represent public sentiment...
...country is that music, and in fact all the arts, play a far larger part in the daily life of the people than with us. There is hardly a town in Germany of twenty thousand or more inhabitants which does not have an opera house with a local troupe giving continual performances. If a German could not go to the opera two or three times a week, he would feel that he was losing one of the greatest enjoyments in life. It is a well known truth of art as well as politics, that what the people earnestly and persistently...
...second number of the Lampoon maintains the excellent standard set by the first one. The local hits in the jokes and the drawings are unusually clever and give the paper an interest which no amount of humor on general matters quite equals. The centre page drawing, "Herbie Arrives in the Philippine's," and pictures of the Freshman billiard room in the Union and "Bloody Monday in 1920" are exceptionally good. The reading matter in the number deals chiefly with College happenings, as it should--and is interesting in consequence...
From now on the Shooting Club will hold shoots every Monday and Thursday afternoon from 2.30 until 5 on Soldiers Field. For Saturday afternoons matches with local teams are being arranged, including a series of two out of three matches with the Boston Athletic Association...