Word: localitis
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...Seminary of Economics. "Recent Discussion of Local Taxation in the United States," by Professor Bullock, in Upper Dane...
Good audiences were secured in nearly every city, and the concerts were in all instances very well received. The many receptions, dinners and dances given or arranged by graduates and local Harvard clubs formed a most enjoyable part of the trip. No serious delay or other inconvenience was experienced at any point, the prearranged schedule being followed almost exactly...
About 53 men including 2 managers will make the trip. Mr. Rice, coach of the Mandolin Club, will also accompany the men and will devote particular attention to keeping the instruments in order. In each of the cities where the clubs will stop, the local Harvard Clubs have shown great enthusiasm in arranging to entertain the members of the clubs and have undertaken to make the provisions necessary for a successful concert. The social plans include dances, teas, dinners, smokers and receptions, so that a trip no less enjoyable than last year may be expected...
...Alumni Civic Service Committee, which is asking the Seniors to register with it at their election today, represents at Harvard one of the most noteworthy of recent developments in the social service movement. The colleges have for some time been taking an important part in this movement through local agencies such as Phillips Brooks House; but all college men do not enter the work and many of those who do lose interest after being cut off from their undergraduate organizations. The Alumni Civic Service Committee is part of a project, described in another column, to prevent this training acquired...
...thus appears that the representative eastern universities are continuing to grow more and more national in character, that the state universities of the West, with the sole exception of Michigan, are much more local, that the same is true to an even greater degree of the southern universities, and, lastly, that the foreign delegations at our higher institutions of learning are constantly on the increase...