Word: local
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...three acts, the plot centres about the clash of Hungarian customs with American ideals, the former represented in the hero, and the latter in the American heroine. Miss Loveman is a nature of Hungary, so that her local color and characterization come at first hand...
...Local motorcycle companies are to be formed in all colleges, cities and towns throughout the country for education and practice in dispatch riding, signal work, first aid, scouting, artillery fire observation, mobile machine gun squadrons, and other branches of activity in which experienced motorcycle riders have proved of inestimable value in Europe...
...number contains, among other articles of more or less local interest, four editorials timely and to the point, a forecast of the track season written by the track manager and one exceptionally important and much needed article relating to recruiting. It is a little surprising to find, despite the professed purpose of the number, that the editorials concern themselves with everything of immediate interest except preparedness. This is all the more disappointing, because we are convinced that any of the editors of the Illustrated could have written more significantly on the subject than Mr. Hudson Maxim in a little morceau...
Members of the University are especially needed for the fourth class of the Naval Reserve Force--the Naval Coast Defence Reserve. This division is a Naval District proposition. The First District is the local one. It extends from Eastport, Me., to Chatham on the Cape. Captain Rush is in charge of this district and has power to enroll anybody who would be useful on the war slate of his naval district. This embraces patrol boats, civil engineers, structural engineers, mechanical engineers...
...been stated that in recommendations for commissions in the Officers' Reserve Corps there will be a certain predisposition against any member of the University who comes up for examination for the Corps without having enrolled in the local Training Corps. This arises from the lack of ambition and sincerity which the failure of students to join the Training Corps may be taken to evidence. It applies only to this extent and is not at all a bar to men who convince the board of the adequacy of their training and experience...