Word: locals
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...widening the geographical influence of the College; and the Cincinnati examinations show this policy to be accepted by the Faculty. If there were one or more Overseers living beyond the radius of a few miles from Boston, the tendency would be to make the character of the College less local and more national...
...Nassau Lit. contains some eloquent resolutions upon the death of the late Judge Elbert Herring, in which the deceased gentleman, who was more than ninety years of age, is eulogized for having "held many positions of trust, and reflected honor on the Cliorophic Society," - a local society of which he was a member while connected with the Princeton class...
...read the article through, and decided upon my subject. This is certainly local, too local, I fear, but it may have that "peculiar" interest so desirable in a college paper, at least to some of my fellow-students...
...system should be as much contrasted with the old one as possible. "Instead of complexity, there should be simplicity; there should be one sole and simple 'event,' a University boat-race between representative crews of the only two colleges in America whose names have anything more than a local significance. There should be no Freshman race, no single-scull contest, no athletic sports, no base-ball match, no regatta promenade, no glee-club concert; 'side-shows' of every name and description should be absolutely prohibited. In abandoning the unwieldy National Rowing Association, Yale and Harvard should abandon with...
...sceptical as to the real existence of that indifference, that we fear any future agitation of the question will partake of the nature of the desecration of a dead issue. Our many exchanges, who could scarcely be expected to take a very lively interest in so merely local a question, we would anticipate in the criticism of here affording further evidence of "Harvard's egotism and self-conceited superiority," and would say to them that such introspection as this discussion implies has a value for our College far beyond the mere results of the discussion itself...