Word: local
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...selection of a Rhodes scholar from Massachusetts for the term of three years beginning next October will be held today and tomorrow at the Harvard Medical School, Longwood avenue, Boston. Candidates who take the qualifying examinations must pay the Supervising Examiner a fee of $5 today, to meet the local expenses of examination and selection. Candidates who file a certificate of exemption must pay a fee of $1 to the chairman of the committee of selection at the time of filling the certificate...
About 50 members of the class will be personally invited by the committee in charge. Mr. B. A. G. Fuller '00 will be the guest of the evening and will talk informally on some subject of local interest to college...
Theoretically, everyone agrees that American scholarship should advance to a par with that of Europe, and whenever local conditions make that possible we feel sure that the American desire to excel will not be confined to securing a balance of trade in agriculture. Practically, there are many obstacles to overcome, and these obstacles are not such as will appeal to conscientious teachers. They appreciate their first duty, and recognize the fact that scholars have no place in a country until the humdrum task of education is provided...
After this concert the men came home by way of the Michigan Central Railroad. The travelling schedule of the trip was arranged by M. B. Whitney '08 and J. Curtiss '09, and the details of the concerts by the local Harvard Clubs
...then be too serve with Lampy's habitual failings. If jokes are to appear once in so often, one cannot wait for them to "just grow" like Topsy; they must be manufactured. If there is little to suggest them, they must be forced. If there is dearth of local picturesqueness, they must go afield to life in general. Moreover, it is only fair to the present number to admit that there are some good touches among the wealth of the commonplace. "Phrases from Novels" (p. 200), the dernier cri of the Freshman's welcome home (p. 206), the limerick about...