Word: local
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that there may be an opportunity for the discussion of the political issues of the present campaign, the executive committee of the Harvard Union have decided to hold the next meeting Monday evening. November 4. Since the meeting occurs the day before the election, and as there is considerable local interest in the election it is expected that the debate will be well attended and hotly contested. The political discussions of late years called out a large number of students and many creditable specters were made. The first political discussion of last year will be remembered...
...Saturday the cricket eleven went to Lowell and played a game with the local team. Lowell won the toss, went to the bat, and made a total of 135. For Harvard, Garrett did the best bowling. Brown and Garrett went in first for Harvard and made 29 before Garrett was bowled by Thorpe. Then Brown saw the rest of the eleven go out, while he carried his bat for 35 out of a total of 65. The score...
...distinctly a student organization, managed by and for the undergraduates, and hence that it needs the support of the college at large. This, too, it deserves. It has been and is its purpose to present for discussion at each meeting, some one timely topic, either of public or of local student interest. The discussion upon the chosen subject is carried on in perfect parliamentary manner by leading disputants and after ward thrown open to the house for discussion. In this way the greatest freedom is obtained together with the best results. But these cannot of course be obtained without student...
...Loose comparisons are untrustworthy. (1) There is no uniform rate of wages in any country; (2) Such comparisons prove too much-American Almanac for 1889, p. 103; Shoenhof's, The Industrial situation, p. 124; Wells' Practical Economics, p. 137; (3) There are many local causes which must necessarily make wages higher in one country than in another. (a) Natural advantages-D. N. Wells, Relation of Tarriff to Wages, p. 2; (b) Standing service-Wells as above; (c) Question of unoccupied land-Sumner, Protective Taxes and Wages; North American Review...
Goalie Chuckie Hughes is the local hero, batting away 19 third-period shots and talking live on the 11 o'clock news...