Word: local
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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After dwelling at some length upon the propriety of touching hats, the writer warns the students of Purdue that their conversation must never soar above the comprehension of the ladies with whom they are talking. The comprehension of the local lady - to judge from the article in question - is probably bounded by local agriculture, cookery, and the recent fashionable novelties of Indianapolis...
...March has at length appeared, some two months behind its proper time. An account of an editorial accident explains this long delay. The Magazine is decidedly the best specimen of the printer's art among our exchanges; its contents, however, are either painfully conventional or still more painfully local, - faults from which its long rest should have exempted...
...sorry to see that the personal and intensely local style which has so long characterized many of our Western exchanges has appeared nearer home. It is an exotic that ought not to flourish in Massachusetts...
...have received a perfect shower of Meteors from Rugby. The Eton College Chronicle has also reached us. The matter contained in these papers is of purely local interest; they are sporting journals of average merit, and as they make no pretence to literary excellence, it would be ungracious to criticise them further...
...Oberlin Review appears in a new dress, and celebrates its splendor in a long editorial. Unfortunately the local printers proved unequal to their task, and the pages of the Review appear in the following order: 4, 5, 2, 3, 12, 1, Its editors trust that the improvements made in the paper will induce their friends to renew their subscriptions immediately. We hope that this trust is not unfounded, but we venture to suggest one additional improvement. The name of the paper might be judiciously altered to the Ohio Labyrinth...