Word: localitis
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...Boston and Albany Railroad will run special local trains from the Allston Station, six minutes south of the Stadium, to Boston and Riverside, starting immediately after the game. The number of trains will depend on the demand. The fare to Boston is eight cents; to Riverside, 15 cents. Intermediate stations at reduced rates...
...penitentiary in an attempted escape of several convicts. Durgan is pardoned and goes west with his mother to start life over again. There he becomes a successful business man, and is called upon to accept the nomination for mayor of the town. At the proper moment, the local boss confronts Durgan with the facts of his past life, and threatens to publish them, unless Durgan agrees to veto a bill for a new water works, one of the chief issues of the campaign. Durgan, of course, refuses, the boss releases the story by means of Durgan's own phone...
...custom for the local chapter of Phi Beta Kappa to invite graduate members of other chapters residing in the University to attend the weekly dinners held in Memorial Hall. In order that this plan may be carried out this year, it is asked that any members of the society from chapters other than the Alpha of Massachusetts will send at the earliest possible date their names and college addresses to J. V. Fuller '14, 29 Holyoke street...
Dean E. R. Thayer, of the Law School, pointed out to the new students that while their professional practice will be local, usually limited to a single city, their school work is general or national. The best students make the most of this opportunity to learn the problems of other individuals and communities, and develop their own ideals in discussions with fellow students. Dean Thayer warned the students. Dean Thayer warned the students that they must temporarily forego general broadening influences and their activities, for now is their only purely scientific and theoretical study of legal principles...
...burlesque Alice that they have given us, no painted imitation: the real Alice has wandered about our Harvard world, and another volume goes to that shelf to which additions are so slow, the shelf of the best beloved. True, the appeal of the new Alice is in most respects local, but the spirit is that of the master, and henceforth every Harvard lover of Carroll's immortal book must have standing by its side the result of the happy inspiration that gave Alice a chance to see some of the humours of our college life