Word: localitis
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...British have undertaken a remodelling of their school system, and out of a sorely depleted treasury have voted eighty millions to begin on. Our Congress will shortly be considering a bill which proposes to make a national problem of our public schools, which have hitherto been a state and local issue; according to the bill there shall be a national department of education, presided over by a secretary who shall have a seat in the President's Cabinet, and for the initial year of his administration have $100,000,000 to distribute among the states, largely in proportion...
...best and closest game was that with Brown, which the latter won, 6-3 kicking two field-goals to one by the local service team. Brown showed the same form as she did the previous week in overwhelming Dartmouth. Two blocked University punts, some neat forward passes by Brown, and a wonderful Brown back field were the causes of the score. In this game the lack of team-work was most clearly evident. As Individuals, the team put up a great game, but the polish shown by former University teams after a long season of careful training was missing...
...members of the S. A. T. C. and others acquainted with the routine thereof, the application of this little story to local conditions is only too evident. Whether or not the military authorities at Apthorp, however, could with reason make a similar plea of ignorance in regard to the policy of supervised study, is not certain. From all that we gather, the noctural practice of supervised study is not only tremendously unpopular but pre-eminently defeasive of the ends which it purports to further...
...within draft age, including men over 21, will be accepted, provided that they have permission to enlist from their local boards...
...last Tuesday with the exercises held in nearly 500 colleges to commemorate the induction into the army of the United States, of more than 150,000 men. As a result of the grippe epidemic in Massachusetts it was deemed inadvisable by the army authorities to hold inductions in the local colleges, but many thousand men in this state will enter the S. A. T. C. on October...