Word: local
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chippies. Among the more uncouth of the year's dramas was this tale of a girl's grim progress from an Ohio village to the bed of a Cleveland beer-runner. Out of a welter of cheap wheezes and smudgy local color comes the 'legger's cryptic decision to marry the girl. Thus made respectable, they return to Ohio, to find the coffin of the girl's tortured mother in the dim sitting room. Cullen Landis played the 'legger without retrieving the general exhibition of bad theatre and worse taste...
...mingling with the immutable laws of nature rather than the variabilities of human social life. Any organization, however specialized, which brings these men together with others in their field is a step to helping them to a broader point of view. There are of course regular national and local Chemical societies, but an association purely of Harvard men has an advantage in that it supplies a common meeting ground exclusively of field interest...
Many besides concentrators in music regularly attend these affairs, and the more frequent local concerts occur in the future the easier it will be to establish the habit of going to them among the student body. If for instance one knew that on a certain day of each week or even each alternate week there was to be a concert, he would get into the habit of always keeping that evening free, a custom quite common in the English Universities. The conditions of the present gift easily allow of such use and the fact that many Universities far outdistance Harvard...
Admittedly a library is a place for the collection of the intellectual achievements of all races and all times. Admitted also is the fact that intense war patriotism and the sort of feelings inspired against an enemy, call them hatred or not as you will, are not only local but are remembered for a relatively short period. Anything which helps to maintain such feelings beyond the time that they are needed for the preservation of unity and national health may rightly be considered to jeopardize the cause of permanent peace. And indeed there would seem to be some ground...
Instigator of the Winnipeg meet & show was the Winnipeg Flying Club. It is one of 16 local Canadian clubs, whose members have flown approximately 10,000 hours since 1927, when the Canadian Department of National Defence first started to foster them. The Government gives planes, engines and cash to clubs which provide their own flying fields, hire an instructor and air engineer, and have at least 30 members prepared to qualify as pilots (not less than ten must already be qualified). For every member who qualifies, the flying club gets $100 more. And if the club later buys planes...