Word: localitis
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...coming vacation in a railroad sleeper, since the club's itinerary includes seven widely separated cities to be visited in ten days. St. Louis is the point farthest west on the trip, and Washington the point farthest south. At each stop the men will be entertained by the local Harvard Club...
Before the telegraphic system was inaugurated, the team was limited to a small number of matches with local opponents. Last year, even with the telegraphic system in use, the team competed against but 11 opponents. The majority of the matches are for the intercollegiate league, but Syracuse, the University of Maine, and the University of California also figure in the schedule...
...blurb says: "This newspaper will picture local, national and international news and events by actual photographs. Other features: United News despatches, leased wire coast despatches, household and fashion pages, sports and children's pages, harbor and shipping news and an unrivaled comic section. . . . Clean, fearless and independent. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., Editor and Publisher...
...Today, one may own an unlimited number of papers scattered from coast to coast, identical as to their telegraphic news, their "features," many of their important editorials; and identical in policy even in their handling of local news...
...control education but to promote it, should be the function of the national government. There is now no national supervision except for vocational and agricultural training. The rest is left to the states. But to leave the problem of education entirely to local communities has always proved a failure. That is why Horace Mann spent his life in fighting the district system in Massachusetts. Progress always results from enlarging the area from which support for education is drawn...