Word: localitis
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There will be an opportunity in the future for all men who have not time enough to try out for the debating team, but who wish experience in speaking, to give short five-minute talks before the public. A request has been made to the Debating Council by certain local organizations to secure a number of such men. All those interested can obtain further information by applying to Philip Walker, 52 Hampden Hall, or Parker Sharp, A35 Persis Smith...
...proprietor of an express business operating between Boston and various New England towns. The New England Publishing Company, defendant, represented by the Kent Club, was a corporation engaged in the publication of the "A B C Pathfinder and Dial Express List" which contained the names of about four hundred local expresses doing business in Boston and its vicinity. The plaintiff applied to the defendant to have his name included in the next issue of the Guide, and the defendant refused to take any action on the matter. The defendant was unjustified and liable to Guide was generally accepted...
Another class, now departed this academic life, will also recall the local price for window panes. The seniors tested thoroughly the strength of the Quadrangle windows and found them vulnerable. As a result the University was presented with a just protest from the donors. The seniors paid the bill...
...exact date of the next University game is still unsettled. It is possible that one of the local Boston teams, the B. A. A., Pere Marquette, or West minister sextets, will play the Crimson the middle of next week, but such a contest has not yet been definitely arranged. It is fairly certain, however, that Saturday evening, January 14, Coach Claflin's men will face Dalhousie University at the Arena...
When we entered Chita, we were received with enthusiasm by the native peons; and their local administrative officer, stepping from a nearby boteca, offered us the freedom of the city, which we proceeded to take. The next day, owing to unfortunate indiscretions in diet, two of our members suffered from acute attacks of enteritis and gastritis; while a third, Dr. Bonaparte, had the misfortune to contract amoebic dysentery, which made him unable to proceed. It was decided, under the circumstances, to send the chief topographer and one of his assistants ahead to reconnoitre. Their only clues were a few vague...