Word: localization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...social service workers are in especial demand as orators for New England gatherings, according to a statement yesterday by officials of the Phillips Brooks House. W. N. Bump '28, Chairman of the Bureau, receives daily five or six communications asking for Harvard men to speak on various topics at local meetings. Many of these letters come from districts as far removed as Maine and Vermont and enclose train fare for the itinerant elocutionist...
...delegates' congress had empowered the committee to make peace "on the best terms to be had." When the miners thus sensationally repudiated last week both their delegates' congress and executive committee, the committee announced in despair that the strike will have to drag on until the various local mine unions are willing to make peace individually with their employers. Over 350,000 miners have already done this; and the "coal strike" as a national unity seemed to be all but fading from the news last week...
...last fiscal year. To Libraries, $4,500,000 was given; to Fine Arts, $600,000; to research, $375,000; for adult education, $300,000. Million dollar grants by educational foundations are reported to be rarer. There are still 50,000,000 U. S. and Canadian people without access to local public libraries...
...they did it in an effort unique in the history of university life. The university youth opened their own restaurants, food-shops, and bookstores, thus considerably reducing the price of living. The students began to build their own student-homes, and, after a five-year's struggle, the local, national, and international organizations of students brought into existence a powerful system for meeting the material needs of their members. The student in Europe today can buy more cheaply than others, gets considerable reductions on travelling expenses, and when ill is cared for in special student sanatoriums...
...qualifying by-law was also added to the constitution of the local chapter making it necessary for a student to have an average grade of B in his engineering studies as well as in all his other studies to be eligible for election...