Word: locally
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...corresponding features of American college journals. No attempt seems to be made at humorous writing, unless, perchance, it be a bit of verse. The contributions belong distinctly to the class called "solid," and are on such subjects as "Want of Leaders in Oxford," "Democracy and Culture," "University Men and Local Government." There is every evidence that these articles are read with interest, for quite a number of them have called forth lengthy rejoinders...
...attempt was made last evening to blow up the local government building in Westminster, Eng. Considerable damage was done but no lives were lost. It is generally believed to be the work of Fenians. An attempt to blow up the office of the London Times was also discovered and frustrated...
...answer to this statement the lecturer suggested that progress can be a religiously encouraging fact only in case it is an essential, not a purely accidental feature of realty. But the progress that science discovers in the world is a local and transient fact, occurring at a particular stage in the process of the cooling of the solar system certain, in so far as we can judge to end before long altogether. If it be replied that progress, ceasing here, may reach a higher stage in some other planet, or in some other solar or stellar system, the lecturer insisted...
...policy of the Berlin University at present to collect all the leading professors of Germany with its faculty. In the end it will be in Germany as in England and America; Berlin will be the national university and the remaining institutions will degenerate into local affairs...
...WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., March 15, 1883, 1 A. M. For New England, increased cloudiness, followed by local rains, warm southwest, veering to colder northwest winds, falling followed by rising barometer...