Word: western
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Gentlemen, - Pray accept my best thanks for the package of Vanity Fair Tobacco which I found here yesterday. It is the best tobacco I ever smoked, and will be a great source of enjoyment to me on my Western trip...
Columbia secured the western position. There was the usual vexatious delay before starting, and when finally the word "go" was given, at about half past five, the press boat, as many a knight of the quill has already piteously told his readers, was half a mile up the river. Columbia started at 39 and Harvard at 35 strokes a minute, the former straining for the lead, and the latter doing steady, strong work. At first Columbia obtained a slight advantage and led by three yards at the railroad bridge; but when the lower bridge was reached, Harvard's slow...
...Yale stroke up to 39, the two crews crossed the line, Harvard the winner by two lengths. The splendid fellows sat up straight and sturdy after their glorious victory, and seemed as comfortable and unmoved as if just ready to start for a practice pull. Yale rowed to the western bank, and got out of their boat, and then were taken back to their quarters in their little steamer, their shell being towed astern. Harvard turned up stream, and pulled away home at a steady stroke...
...blue-blooded Presbyterianism and 'codfish' aristocracy; Harvard for its Cockneyisms; Yale for its sports and fast people; Columbia for its apish English manners; Dartmouth for its country 'greenhorns'; Amherst for its shrewd Yankees; Trinity for its ancient church foundations; Union for its old Knickerbocker aristocracy; Hamilton for Western 'shoddy'; and Cornell for its progressiveness...
HARVARD College has its Transcript, and the University of Michigan its Christian Advocate. Our Western brothers have already been accused of irreligion; "experto crede," the charge of immorality will come next; - and as the Chronicle devotes four columns to its defence on the first head, the second, being far more comprehensive, will probably call forth a supplement to the next number. This will prove the converse of "parturiunt montes"; the ridiculous and insignificant charge will bring forth a mountain of argument. The Chronicle editors, however, should learn wisdom from us, and fight the war in the enemy's country...