Word: locally
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is a general local sentiment in favor of the sale of the Brooklyn Navy Yard...
Harvard men naturally find the local papers of other colleges generally of little interest. Of course, a Harvard reader can always find something of interest in the papers of Yale, Columbia or Princeton, our great athletic rivals, but in other respects few of them are worthy of extended perusal. The Columbia Spectator finds many readers here, however, and is always a paper of sufficient merit and brightness to repay reading. The Princeton Tiger is of the same class, only "more so," and is rapidly becoming a very entertaining and valuable publication. But the journal which, in our opinion, would...
...WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., May 10, 1882-1 A. M. For New England, fair weather, followed by increasing cloudiness and local rain, northerly, veering to easterly winds, stationary or lower temperature, rising, followed by falling barometer...
...include selections from the existing songs of some twenty colleges which have declined to co-operate in the enterprise or to supply original matter. We cannot but regret that Harvard is not suitably represented in this book. Of course the proposed song-book of her own will satisfy all local needs; yet we are nevertheless now deprived of any due representation musically before the college world...
...long satirical poem, curiously called "The Ad," which runs throughout the volume and which is credited to Everett, is conducted with much spirit through its long course. I cannot describe it; it is rambling and incoherent and professedly a local satire. It is in heroic couplets, and Mr. J. Lowbard is its titular author. To display its character I need only quote parts of the argument of one book, which treats of "The arts of rising in the world - Marriage - Poetry - Dolphins - Geese - British Cruisers - Spithead - Aphorisms of two kinds, sharp and flat...