Word: localitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...local officer of the Collegiate Montaigne Society, an organization which terms itself "devoted to the quiet promulgation of the skeptical thought of the Great French essayist," tossed a debate challenge last night on the doctrines of Father Leonard Feeney of St. Benedict's Center...
Last year Harvard ranked second in the intercollegiate squash league while Yale and Princeton, the only teams that defeated the Crimson, sandwiched the local team on the squash ladder. The team's success in recent years is due largely to the guiding hand of coach Barnaby, who has followed a two point program for building bigger and better squash teams...
Football players seeking part-time jobs can count on preferential treatment from four local hotels. Officials of these hotels explained yesterday they have decided on this policy because they want the Crimson team to win so that people will come from out of town to see it play...
...thoughtful present I ever got" said one Harvard grad "was some sonnets a Wellesley girl wrote me and illuminated on parchment." This statement is another version of the old line that the thought behind the gift is most important; that this form of reasoning still prevails is evidenced by local sales of soup tourines, rare prints, and several copies of the US camera annual...
Today, a week and a half in advance of the Yuletide season, the Social Services Committees of Phillips Brooks House is already making plans to give a Christmas to scores of local youngsters who haven't much reason to believe in a Santa Claus...