Word: towns
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Dunster found Harvard a poor secondary school, without head, or teacher, or corporate existence. Its handful of students were "dispersed in the town and miserably distracted in their times of concourse", the College building not half completed, and the legacy of John Harvard almost exhausted. Dunster left Harvard small indeed and slenderly endowed, but well provided with buildings, conducted with dignity and efficiency by young and enthusiastic teachers, corporate independence secured by a charter, discipline regulated by College statutes. Yet the manner of his leaving was tragic, and almost a century elapsed before the College recovered the prestige...
...When travelling salesmen were comfortably accommodated in an hostelry of another city, they found as much amusement in the hotel situation at Cambridge as in the story of the fat lady in the pullman car; but on the other hand, when they were forced to the inconvenience of leaving town in order merely to spend a few hours of the night, they usually gave vent to their spleen in no uncertain terms...
...violently enough to form a strong issue in campaigns a century apart. Indifference, and a personal touch, have helped to satisfy the two smaller divisions in their relations; but here in Massachusetts, the section in which originated the ideal of local self-government, and its expression in the town-meeting, the small towns, through their associated selectmen, have spoken vigorously against the encroachments of the Commonwealth on their local authority...
...years have seen the states quietly increasing their own jurisdiction, even as the federal administration has stepped, more or less successfully, into their affairs; the establishment of state police, the summoning of militia in last spring's strike, the bill pending now before the General Court limiting the small town's power of appointing local officials, are indications of this trend...
...belonging to that hypothetical "ten" who understood the master's theory of relativity. Especially was Claude Bragdon interested in mathematical metaphysics as applied to esthetics, for by profession he is an architect. Among his buildings is the New York Central Railroad Station at Rochester, N. Y., in which town he lives...