Word: localitis
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...Glee Club and Instrumental Clubs will make their annual trip to Fall River on Friday, when they will play at an entertainment, the proceeds of which will be given to a local Red Cross fund. The concert, which has been planned for the following evening in New York, has been abandoned because the Christmas vacations of Princeton and Yale, with whose musical clubs the concert was to be arranged, begin on December 20, and an entertainment on the evening of December 22 would have caused too large a break in the vacations of those colleges...
...University's allotment for the Third Camps is 56. The Memorandum of Information from the War. Department states expressly that all undergraduates must apply through the local department of Military Science. The University Office will consider less favorably the applications of cadets with low grades in examinations and with unexcused absences marked against them...
...troops. It went no farther than the initial success. . . . . The enemy will not succeed by this abortive attack in diverting our attention from Flanders, where he is certain to renew his efforts." In other words, the public is made to believe that it was only a successful local attack which entirely failed in its broader strategic aim of forcing the Germans to transfer men and guns from another portion of the front. The stand taken by the press at the time of the Marne to the effect that a real defeat had been suffered and that it should be retrieved...
Concerts have already been given by the Musical Clubs at Framingham for the benefit of the local Red Cross, at Fort Standish in Boston Harbor and at the Colonial Club on Quincy street. The Musical Clubs also played at the Red Triangle Bazaar at the Copley Plaza in Boston last week, and the Glee Club sang at the Boston City Club. A concert for the benefit of the soldiers at Camp Devens, Ayer, has been arranged for Friday, November...
...city of Boston, proper, had already passed its maximum of $1,000,000, on unofficial reports, at noon. When the figure of $1,539,785 was made out, 41 cities and towns of the district remained still to be heard from, although many of the local committees in the district had sent in approximately accurate reports by telephone. The largest collection reported by any committee outside of Boston was $89,331, from Brookline...