Word: localitis
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...rest, however, an examination would be given "by local alumni boards, especially sitting for the purpose, as to personality, leadership, and similar personal qualities." An applicant would secure a statement from his headmaster at school and be subject to an interview from the alumni board--all for the purpose of determining his personality. But just what this is or should be, just what type of person Princeton wants, must remain an uncertain thing. One sort might appeal to one board and not at all to another; or if a standard were hit upon, would not the applicants who passed...
...student is apt to look on the matter as essentially local. Class antagonism for him involves, perhaps, the club system, competitions and such phases of his life; especially is this true of large universities. College democracy is, to him, chiefly a question of how largely wealth and social position count in securing the honors esteemed by his fellows; of whether or not one "can come to Yale unless he is prosperous enough to pay an income tax, evade the Eighteenth Amendment and attend an expensive tutoring school...
...have joined in the attempt to preserve the woodland of the country for future generations by the adoption of scientific methods of lumbering which in the long run would prove to be economical. The unprejudiced observer, interested in these efforts, would be forced to admit that, although some local societies have done a great deal, their activities have not reached that national scope necessary for any long-time effect...
...which attended the performances this year and last would have justified such an ambitious program. The Dramatic Club is not yet able to go on tour even in America. In the meantime, reversing Mahomet's expedient, it is bringing plays from all the corners of the world to its local public. Perhaps in time it will find that its name has become as well known as if it had performed for a season in the Theatre Francais...
...subject so that their horizons are limited. If any public question arises in the town men are apt to turn to the lawyer as a person of trained mind, wider view and better able than most men to control his time. Therefore he finds a place on the local committees, in clubs, churches and other organizations. He is chosen to town office or is sent to the legislature or to Congress, or he is called to some executive position. The door from legal into political life always swings easily open, and hence in state or nation the lawyer is more...