Word: local
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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About 53 men including 2 managers will make the trip. Mr. Rice, coach of the Mandolin Club, will also accompany the men and will devote particular attention to keeping the instruments in order. In each of the cities where the clubs will stop, the local Harvard Clubs have shown great enthusiasm in arranging to entertain the members of the clubs and have undertaken to make the provisions necessary for a successful concert. The social plans include dances, teas, dinners, smokers and receptions, so that a trip no less enjoyable than last year may be expected...
...Alumni Civic Service Committee, which is asking the Seniors to register with it at their election today, represents at Harvard one of the most noteworthy of recent developments in the social service movement. The colleges have for some time been taking an important part in this movement through local agencies such as Phillips Brooks House; but all college men do not enter the work and many of those who do lose interest after being cut off from their undergraduate organizations. The Alumni Civic Service Committee is part of a project, described in another column, to prevent this training acquired...
...universities of the West have enjoyed during the past decade, it is of interest to note that the eastern universities have nevertheless increased at a more rapid rate in the divisions outside those in which they are located than in their own divisions. A further proof of the more local nature of the western institutions is found in a comparison of the position which state representation occupies in relation to total enrollment in both the eastern and western universities. For example, the largest percentage among the eastern universities of enrollment from its own state over total registration, namely...
...compare these figures with similar ones for the large western universities, we find that the student clientele of the latter, with the exception of the University of Michigan, is much more local in character. The following figures represent the percentage of the student body in six large universities which claim the state in which the institution is located as their permanent home: Minnesota, 94 per cent.; California, 88 per cent.; Stanford, 78 per cent.; Illinois, 77 per cent.; Wisconsin, 75 per cent.; and Michigan, 53 per cent...
...thus appears that the representative eastern universities are continuing to grow more and more national in character, that the state universities of the West, with the sole exception of Michigan, are much more local, that the same is true to an even greater degree of the southern universities, and, lastly, that the foreign delegations at our higher institutions of learning are constantly on the increase...