Word: locals
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...instrument can be seen from outside the Hall. The clock on the Unitarian Church will be stopped at 12 o'clock (local time) and started 15 minutes 44 1-2 seconds later, when the noon alarm strikes (eastern time...
...signals given according to State House Time will stop at Greenwich midnight, Saturday, November 17, 1883; that is, at about 7h. 16 P. M., by the local time. The signals according to "Eastern time" will begin at Greenwich noon on Sunday, November 18; that is, at 7h Om A. M., by the new standard. The minute immediately preceding 7h A. M. will be entirely occupied by a long rattle of about 36 seconds and a pause of about 24 seconds. This will also occur during the minutes immediately preceding the hours 8, 9, 10, and 11, A. M. The first...
...this is so, however. If not it would seem as if the list given out for so large a section could easily be extended. The field from which selections might be made is practically boundless. The list of subjects given out at other colleges as announced in the local college papers proves this fact. In default of other resources we should imagine this an excellent magazine from which to draw supplies of this kind...
...entertaining than at present. If those not on the editorial boards would only turn their attention to doing something to aid the experions of the editors, there would be less necessity for filling up vacant columns with what to the majority seems mere trash, be it essays, orations or local items of blind import and little interest, though to editors, hard pressed for time and copy, it may seem acceptable reading matter. [Badger...
...some colleges already associations among the students have sprung up akin in their aims to the Harvard clubs of the great cities. Students from any particular locality have banded themselves together for the purposes of social amusement, of encouraging and aiding in increasing attendance at their own college from the locality they represent, and of advancing their mutual interests while in college. There are many reasons why a plan like this or some modification of it might well be adopted at Harvard. A club formed among the students of San Francisco, from New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, or from...