Word: localitis
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...after midday, with the result that several of our most prominent sleepers have been caught under the new rule. Some say that the Dean's office is responsible--others, the Regent; while there are not wanting those who maintain that the whole thing is propaganda fabricated by Local .001 of the United Sisterhood of College Goodies to shorten their hours of labor by encouraging early rising. Fear is expressed that unless the union is broken at once, the emboldened "goodies" will drag us from our beds at earlier and earlier hours, until even the seven o'clock bell will...
...second sketch, "Insomnia," is a local version of the "City of Dreadful Night" before those "damned exams!" We shudder our admiration...
...Band is just entering upon the busiest part of its season. Previous to the mid-year period it had played forty-three public engagements, including a number of local concerts and a trip to Yale with the football team...
...Town Hall at Brookline. During April, concerts will be played at Natick, and possibly at Concord and Hanover, New Hampshire. From April 18 to 25, the Band takes its annual spring tour, during which it will play at Framingham, Worcester, Springfield, Albany and New York. Among other local concerts will be three Yard Concerts, from 7.30 to 8.30, Thursday evenings...
...country has very little practical government, as the Turkish policy was to give all the power to the local chieftains or sheiks, who exercised their prerogatives independently. In times of national emergency, the government hoped to have the support of these local potentiaries whom it had raised to power, but the sheiks usually embraced the cause most profitable to their own interests...