Word: localize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in the gay days of Manchuria and Munich, when the local R.O.T.C. was still preparing its future cavalry officers with the aid of a band of sturdy polo ponies, Harvard University was possessed of a glorious polo team. Organized as the undergraduate Polo Association the college poloists registered slashing triumphs over Williams, Princeton, and Cornell, and usually climaxed their season with a match against Yale before a cheering throng in Chicago...
Just plain polo has been back for nearly a year now, but the army polo ponies, the convenient stables, and the well-to-do horse owner aren't coming back. So the polo team became an "away" club, dependent on horses provided by its opponents and hopelessly lacking in local practice facilities...
...February, 1938, when maids were getting 42 cents an hour and the local AF of L was preparing to whip together a nice little University union, a handful of men and women employees decided to found an independent labor organization. AF of L leaders laughed, but in the ensuing court fight, the Labor Relations Board granted the 18 hardy souls legal recognition. From that moment on, the employees union has grown steadily...
...recent meeting of Government 155b Associate Professor Cherington announced to the members of the course the name, address, and phone number of the chairman of the local chapter of Plan E for Boston League, known to some as the Beat-Curley-By-All-and-Any-Means-Cofraternity. He urged them to communicate with her for voluntary work in furtherance of the Great Cause. Plan E is not desired on its merits but as a means of getting rid of Curley. A few sarcastic remarks from the high throne of academic superiority disposed of Mr. Curley, and the rest...
...believe that an instructor should use course time to propagandize for any political group (2.) I believe it an academic abuse of the first magnitude to make disparaging references to a local public official and to recommend the programme of a political group without affording opportunity for those who disagree with such a reference and the programme recommended to retort immediately before the audience to which the reference was made and the program recommended. Any student who demanded the right to harangue the group would, of course, been out of order. (3.) The retort which would have sufficed...