Word: localitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Question-mark team of the league is the Dudley outfit; the Commuters have a huge turnout for the practices, and their coach claims that his local boys "are taught some of the best football in the east." "Our squad is light," says the coach, "but they are fast and scrappy...
...examples of what the college may expect, they cite such plans as a more efficient faculty rating system; reduced transportation rates for student travel; a lodging bureau, which will enable men to quarter their weekend dates at local women's schools; and several other projects which represent substantial savings to undergraduates...
...expected to cut into the Liberal Union's film series, Ward revealed that 85 percent of the Radcliffe and Harvard members would enter active competitions. The remaining 15 percent are listed as associate members and receive season tickets to the films and to discussions to be delivered by local businessmen...
Though crowds have surged in and around the Yankee Ticket Offices at the Stadium and A. G. Spalding (Fifth Avenue) in an effort to procure the elusive opening-game-of-the-series ducats, local fans can take advantage of excellent television facilities in the quest for seeing-it-all-happen. These facilities include Adams, Lowell, and Winthrop Houses and the Union, which offer television in their Common Rooms...
...Local bistros also feature video, but experienced hands advise getting a seat at the fountain long in advance and being prepared to drink enough to satisfy the understandably commercialized managements...