Word: localitis
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...Recently local papers have found that the most important characterizes of Harvard in the vernal season is funny automobiles. Now there are very many funny and ridiculous and otherwise entertaining automobiles at Harvard. Just as there are all manner of humorous accessories at any place. But comparatively few undergraduates find touring in Fords their sole occupation in the spring months. No one has as yet, either in faculty or college, risen to exclaim. "The Ford's the thing...
...mile and two mile, the Crimson is clearly predominant and if the Harvard distance men can stand the gaff of doubling up, the local runners should garner 17 of the 18 points in their two events. This means that Haggerty, Tibbetts, and Watters are counted on for points in the mile, while Tibbetts and Luttman should finish their eight laps ahead of Smith of Yale. Should Luttman be off form, Smith may well drive home ahead of the Crimson Sophomore...
Recent Theories. Virus. Virus, of many forms, appears in every cancer patient and vitiates his blood, upsets the biochemistry homologous to the normal for the species, so that the organism cannot repair the damage done to the locale of infection or irritation. In consequence, cells (which with normal, healthy blood food would take their normally diverse form peculiar to the local tissue) stop their growth at a primitive, atavistic stage. Such primitive cells may lie dormant while the blood is able to counteract the virus. But eventually the virus predominates in the blood and the primitive cells effloresce into cancer...
Advertising. Nine years and a 500% increase in newspaper advertising-Director William A. Thompson of the Bureau of Advertising of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association was telling the Federal Trade Commission last week. In 1925, $720,000,000 was spent on newspaper advertising-$500,000,000 by local merchants, $220,000,000 by national sellers. Advertising agencies placed considerable of the business; in fact it "would be suicidal to advertisers" to do away with the present agency system, according to Manager Lincoln B. Palmer of the association...
More probable is it that the moderates will restrain the legal offensive against labor even as they have restricted the direct attack. In trade unions when they apply themselves only to local conditions, one finds a valuable counter-irritant to capitalism. In the matter of hours and wages, the union aids in striking a fair balance with the employer...