Word: locals
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Brown university crew has made arrangements with a local boat club by which it secures very good accommodations...
...freshman nine went to South Braintree Saturday, and played a game with the local nine, which resulted in a victory for the freshmen by a score of 9 to 6. '87 played a loose game in the second and third innings, and allowed the Braintree to score six unearned runs, but after that played an almost perfect game, and blanked their opponents every inning. Baker pitched a fine game, and only allowed five scattered hits to be made off him, while '87, especially Willard and Wrestling, batted Barry hard. Below is the score...
...present tariff regulations and asserted that he did not consider them necessary to the welfare of the woolen industry. He argued at some length against the protection tariff, and claimed that the general competition of the world will find where a staple can be manufactured cheapest before mere local competition and experience show that the tariff is prejudicial to the woolen industry. The speaker glanced at the labor and capital problem and said that great danger lurked in a breach between employee and employer. Mr. Hazard evidently spoke in sympathy with the feeling of his audience, and the close...
...value apart from showing the relative popularity of the men chosen. The fact that the total number of votes cast both by Harvard students and by the reading public reached by a New York literary weekly, was so small makes any choice of names liable to the suspicion of local preferences. If is but natural that men who are about to select a list of names which whey consider of most worth, should be more or less influenced by personal preferences. The only offset to this tendency is, that as the prejudices of the reading public of New York...
Macaulay was fitted for college at Shelford, a school situated in a village a few miles from Cambridge, and the strong local influences he met there must local influences he met there must have had some effect on his choice of a college...