Word: local
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...elements, viz., the brewery and distillery, the saloon, and the drinker; and if the first one can be overthrown, the overthrow of the two others will follow. Now what is the best means of overthrowing the distillery and the brewery? Surely not persuasion. Should then high or low license, local option or a constitutional amendment be the means? The latter is the best means owing to its superior principle...
...alternative, he said, is between prohibition and nine-tenths prohibition, for nine-tenths prohibition is the present condition of Massachusetts. There are numerous objections to the adoption of the prohibitory amendment, viz, it would be unconstitutional and degrading, and a prohibitory law could not work where there is no local option. Such an amendment would then be a farce, as Rhode Island and many other states can testify...
Some account is given in another column of the CRIMSON of the change of the membership and constitution of the Interscholastic Athletic Association. The alteration consists principally in the change of the organization from a local one, to one that is representative of the large majority of New England preparatory schools. It is impossible to estimate the amount of good which Harvard's athletic interests have already received from the work of the association during the past three years of its existence. All of the three schools which have composed the membership, may be called Harvard preparatory schools...
...secret societies are soon to be started at Yale. One, a secret society, will take its members from all departments; the other will be a local academic society, confined to the junior class and competing with Psi Upsilon and Delta Kappa Epsilon, which have recently limited their membership to twenty...
...present system are clearly set forth, especially the ineffectiveness of our legislative bodies and the danger of a partisan civil service. Recognizing the necessity of organization, Mr. Storey deplores the supremacy of the party spirit now so predominant in politics. He suggests as a substitute the organization of local clubs for the purpose of carrying out specific reforms. How such clubs could be useful in national questions without a central bureau which would be not unlike a party organization, Mr. Storey does not say. The general unwieldy mess of a system with a separate party for each question is also...