Word: localized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Again-On-Again", and "Giddy-Ap" Gilligan. Wallace Harper, who will be missed from the Harvard lineup today, has been dubbed the "Ioway Dutchman", for reasons unknown. In general the nicknames are amazingly apt. "Gentleman Gene" and "Tiger Jack" just about describe those two ex-heavyweight champs. The local pugilistic comedian, one Mr. Stone, has been happily termed "Rocky" (Crushed) Stone...
...says the University Directory, published last Saturday, and on sale at all Cambridge bookstores for 75 cents. It contains the names, local addresses, years and departments of enrolment of all students and officers of Harvard University, listed in two sections. The first, cataloguing the names of the officers is in 29 pages, while the roll of students in the University covers 99 pages...
...Theater Guild's production of "Porgy" returns to the Hollis, after a year, with no loss in its striking effectiveness. It is a folk play, but without the easy movement of plot which that expression might imply; local color, to be sure, is there, but woven with skill into the fabric of a tremendously swiftmoving drama; and, moreover, the folk atmosphere is not mere adornment, but has a vital part in the development of the plot. A red-coated orphanage band leading the inhabitants of Catfish Row on a picnic; a quack lawyer in a top hat, selling Porgy...
Near Darien, Conn., three alligators were found on Collender's Point after a heavy storm, were taken to the local jail, detained...
Whatever the material effects of the agreement may be, however, there can be little doubt that it represents the culmination of a movement long in the process of evolution which may prove to have much more than local significance in the age-old struggle between town and gown. With the industrial development of many university towns, there has inevitably sprung up a good deal of competition for favorable land sites. That the university should have the advantage of tax-exemption in all cases has seemed to some an anachronism which long since should have been done away with. The advantages...