Word: localitis
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Apparently, if Harvard is a typical example, American colleges are rapidly becoming melting pots within "the melting pot" and their function has changed from local to national education. Or, if we return to our pansy bed, it has become a mass of varying color such as might be expected from a government package of experimental seed...
This reaction, blurred in all cases by local issues, is not a complete repudiation of socialistic tendencies, but is an expedient adopted because socialism in practice has been found an idea with too few heads to comprehend. There still remains in opposition a strong liberal element which will ride the wagon but not steer...
...respects. The omission of the graduate schools leaves that large part of the University without the helpful guide which the College finds so essential. One may wonder if the directories by dormitories and by cities are of as much importance as last year's complete directory with home addresses, local addresses, and cross-references...
...organized opposition is clearly due to the industry itself. It is said to have brought into Massachusetts the biggest war chest ever brought into any Commonwealth for any purpose. Why? Its motive is obviously the largest possible profit. On the other hand, the 420 organizations, state and local, supporting the law before the legislature and before the people, include all the altruistic organizations and the churches. The men and women who are speaking and writing for it are without pay and sacrificing time and money. Whether mistaken or not, their purpose is clearly to seek the interests of the Commonwealth...
...remarkable that the Clan has won so many supporters in the North and West, for it grew up as a protection for the Southerners against the carpet-bagger. The reason that this organization has been able to enlarge its scope so successfully is because it has everywhere appealed to local religious and racial antagonisms. Throughout the North and West, however, the same methods of violence are employed as in the South...