Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some years, there have been reports that local lacrossemen and golfers train on liquor and late dates. Perhaps these reports are totally unfounded. But they may well have reached the ears of the men who decide Harvard athletic policy thus become involved in the recent "economy steps." Such, at least, is the current Dillon Field House scuttlebutt...
Finally, it cannot be too much emphasized that the great majority of those who work in Harvard theater do not intend to become professionals. They like local drama for its camaraderie, its opportunities for self-expression in many ways, its abundance of different ideas, and the thrill of producing near-professional results with non-professional material. They fear that a situation in which doctrine was expounded in the classroom and enacted in the new theater would leave no room for them and their successors. John Washburn...
...inviting. The town supported by the college, South Hadley, is quaint, and largely inhabited by at least fourth generation New Englanders. Mount Holyoke is not plagued by friction between itself and the community; in fact, it allows the townspeople to use the library, swimming pool, and observatory. Said one local youngster about the college, "It keeps us in trouble"; and one middle-aged citizen commented, "The girls make lovely scenery; they're 1300 more good reasons to live in town...
...might say that the reason Harvard seems still to think works of American authors measly and a poor man's literature, is the fact of inertia. That ponderous old Harvard, like a fat man who can't see his feet, hasn't gotten around to local material...
...best way to demonstrate the principle of self-determination on Taiwan is to continue with the election process which the Nationalist government is now operating at the local level. Whenever this process can be built up and begin to operate for Taiwan as a whole, under the auspices of the present government, it will go far to show that the people there have a form of democratic self-determination. John K. Fairbank '29, Professor of History...