Word: localize
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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This concert, the first one which the Musical Clubs have given in Boston since the war, is also the first local concert which they have given this year as an organization distinct from the Glee Club...
...first scheduled event of the season will be an innovation--a doubleheader with Boston University and Middlebury College. Both of these teams are of practically the same strength, the local eleven being defeated by the Vermonters this fall, 7 to 0. Middlebury, however, scored only 19 points during the whole season to its opponents' 16. B. U. was defeated by New Hampshire State, Middlebury and Boston College,--in the first two games by the score of 7 to 0, and in the game with B. C., 34 to 0. Some idea of the strength of this eleven can be gained...
...shown up well during the past year, and the New York National Guard Cavalry team. A great deaf should be expected of Yale for making some progress in this direction as her facilities are practically complete. She should have few or no handicaps of any considerable importance as her local facilities were made before the war when they little realized when they would eventually be put to such use. Before the war, when the country's attention was turned toward making good soldiers and emergency officers to lead them, Yale built an Armory and riding hall with stables...
...been suggested that the Shannon Post can assist in this work in the following ways: first, appoint a committee on Americanization; second, enter into active cooperation with the local and State school authorities in their campaign to interest immigrants in learning English; third, organize a campaign of instruction in Americanization through which the native-born citizens may be informed, both as to the needs of Americanization, and the best methods to be employed; fourth, organize and train a corps of speakers to address American audiences in the interests of building up a friendly attitude and establishing right relations between native...
...Chinese, every ship's compass, however improved the type, has depended upon the magnetic properties of the earth for its direction, and been subject to no end of disturbing forces arising from iron and steel in the construction of the ship itself. Many marine disasters have been caused by local disturbances of which the ship-master himself was not aware. The well known property of a spinning gyroscope to maintain its axis in a constant direction suggested the possibility of using such an affair as a means of locating direction...