Word: california
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...wanton lapwing gets himself another crest," the &OEstrus has also appeared in new attire. It is now a good-looking paper of nine columns; a size which prevents the publication of those prize essays and orations which appear to be so plentiful at the University of California. We notice, too, a more important change in the tone of the items...
...OEstrus comes out strongly in favor of women's rights, and its "editorial affairs" are to be managed, in part, by young ladies of the University of California. After co-education comes co-editing. The gentler sex is, according to the OEstrus, "an acknowledged superior element in the college." The OEstrus is apparently conscious of its own defects, as the following observation shows : "This acquisition will tend to add dignity and tone to the paper, and prevent it from possibly falling into that low strain which we have seen in some issues of our contemporaries...
...MEETING of the Harvard Club of San Francisco was recently held in that city, and its affairs seem to be in a prosperous condition. The dinner was well attended, considering the distances men have to travel in California. There were present about twenty or twenty-five graduates and former members of the College. Several members of the class of '77 graced the dinner with their presence, and enthusiastic speeches were made by graduates of longer standing. Mr. Fried-lander, formerly of the class of '79, was the youngest gentleman at the dinner...
...OEstrus, from California, seems to have rather a blunt sting; it is filled with those primitive and exceedingly personal "grinds," which are found only in very youthful and very Western papers, and in a contemporary from Connecticut, which we need not mention more explicitly. We learn from the OEstrus that California colleges are like our own, in some respects at least. There, as here, the editors have to write the papers; there, as here, athletics are neglected, and so on through the list of grievances. For purity of style and refinement of taste, we commend this item...
HUBERT ENGELBERT TESCHEMACHER, San Francisco, California...