Word: localitis
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Like an ominous, glowing bed of coals, the Japanese crisis smoulders on, now fanned into a momentary flare by an incident such as the recent shooting in Vladivostok, now outwardly dampened by propagandists. No clear-thinking citizen can maintain that it is a local issue, restricted to California; the problem is one that affects the entire future of the United States and its immediate foreign policy...
Dean Edsall writes also of the growing importance of graduate medical work in the United States, stating that last year 614 men received graduate instruction at the Medical School, most of them being either local practitioners spending part of their time in study or else doctors coming from a distance to spend a limited time at the school...
...state. Prominent doctors say that it is a great factor in maintaining a high standard of health among the over-crowded city population. The slight disadvantage of two time systems has virtually disappeared now that people have become accustomed to the change. The only reasons for repeal are distinctly local and are far outweighed by the advantages of the extra hour of daylight to the community as a whole...
...York Athletic Club to investigate the conditions under which the trip to Antwerp, was made, and to make plans which will render impossible the repetition of certain objectionable conditions met with last spring and summer. Because of the B. A. A. games here tonight, few of the local track directors are to be present...
...will interest our Princeton friend to learn that after the recent concert in St. Louis, the President of the Local Harvard Club wrote to President Lowell that the Glee Club concert was the greatest advertisement that Harvard had ever received, especially when compared with the combination of jazz and booze presented by other college glee clubs...