Word: localitis
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...Thursday morning the CRIMSON will perpetrate another radical innovation in college journalism when it will turn over its weekly Crime Column to a group of militant Radcliffe maids who are eager to clear themselves of certain slurs cast upon them by the ill-mannered editors of a wretched little local publication known as the Lampoon...
...This opinion, based on facts disclosed by the two intercollegiate balls of last week, and confirmed by general discussion among his fellow workers, was given to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. On the other hand, the consensus of opinion among the uniformed hands at the same hostelry is that the local students show greater signs of sobriety than the invaders...
That the teaching staff would be handicaped by the policy, that a falling off in research work would handicap local industries, that discouragement of research reversed a Wisconsin tradition of "fearless sifting and winnowing" for truth...
...Maryland stirred with the dream of a $10,000,000 Cathedral. Six years ago, all was ready to begin, when suddenly the Bishop abandoned his dream, insisting that his diocese should first make good its quota for the missionary work of the Church. Again, in 1923, Bishop Murray yielded local aspirations to world sympathy, and produced from his diocese a supplementary fund of $180,000 for Japanese relief...
...Paul, Minnesota capital, has a newspaper, The St. Paul Pioneer Press. It is the usual stodgy and amorphous compendium of local accidents, arrests, entertainments, boiler-plate hokus-pokus from New York, syndicated national news service. Like the papers of other middle-sized middle-western cities, The St. Paul Pioneer Press functions, apparently, on the assumption that few events that happen in Europe are important enough to be told to the people of St. Paul...