Word: localitis
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...score or 142-0 made by the Williams eleven against a local Troy team is the largest score recorded during the past season...
...first fiction of the number, "How We Routed the Ghosts," is, as its title indicates, a modern ghost story, and a local one at that. The plot of the tale is very slender, the language is at times ill chosen and the humor is so excessively fine as to be almost imperceptible...
...meeting lasted about three hours and comprised, in addition to these events, rope climbing, running high kick, standing high jump and trial heats of the dash. In addition to the Harvard men there were representatives from the B. A. A., Technology and one or two local schools. R. S. Hale '91, and G. L. Batchelder '92, were judges, while Mr. Lathrop timed the events...
...local committee agreed to do all that was possible to make those directly concerned perfectly satisfied, and anticipated the hearty co-operation of the railroad companies...
Without intercollegiate matches freshman teams could not be maintained. The games with Yale and the race with Columbia form the one incentive to practice. It would be impossible to keep alive any interest in the teams by class contests and games with local high schools merely. And with the freshman teams other class teams will disappear. If "the main object of intercollegiate races and competitive contests is to increase the number of students who habitually take part in manly sports," the class teams, including freshman teams, should be strongly encouraged; and freshman intercollegiate contests could not possibly be excluded...