Word: localitis
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This somewhat guarded remark of a thinking officer points out a condition, often overlooked by the editor of the local journal enthusiastic over the "native sons training at Camp X--". The C. M. T. C. training, valuable in itself, can only hope to develop men well versed in the fundamentals of elementary drill and physical development,--in a month nothing more is possible. Congressmen, who, having voted for a diminutive army, attempt to defend their action by pointing to the C. M. T. C. students as "our able defenders of the future," are not only deceiving their constituents, but themselves...
...local arrangements for the meeting have been placed in charge of a committee of which Professor S. C. Prescott of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is chairman. Other members of the committee include Professors G. H. Parker, W. M. Wheeler, L.L.B. '02, W. J. B. Osterhout, Harlow Shapley, Theodore Liman '97, A. B. Lamb, Ph. D. '04, and E. B. Wilson of the University. The secretary to the committee is A. L. Town-send, instructor in mechanical engineering...
...possible for every graduate to stir the patriotism of a nation or single-handed to break down barriers of local prejudice and intolerance, but it is possible for every one to walk humbly in the path where trod with giant's step. Edward Everett Hale...
...other universities have been compelled laboriously to do for themselves, namely, it builds up and directs the enthusiasm, cohesiveness and loyalty of her graduates so that the University may always have at hand a well-organized machinery for the accomplishment of any desired purpose. Second, it organizes and stimulates local city and state Harvard clubs and correlates them and their activities. It administers scholarships in those states where Harvard men are not strong enough to maintain scholarships of their...
...definite formulas the following of which, no matter how obviously, seems to insure success. In the case of the latter, "A" generally represents the person to be murdered in the first chapter; "B" is the extraordinarily beautiful girl, somehow related to "A", upon whom suspicion is cast by the local police; while "C" is the famous detective who solves the various "mysterious", or "sinister", forces--"Z to the nth power"--which surround the murder and emanate from "X", the villain or unknown quantity. The formula is then derived by cancelling "A" with "Z to the nth power", subtracting "X", squaring...