Word: westernizes
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Harvard is undeniably superior to any Western educational institution. The opportunities here are so many and varied that Western men who come here make a very wise choice. On the other hand, the University needs the breadth and the national character which only students from all over the country can give it. Undoubtedly the number of men from the West that come to Harvard is increasing...
...CRIMSON believes that granting Western men a full vacation at Christmas time would remove a constant source of irritation and a strong grievance which Western men at college now feel. This would indirectly, but none the less surely, tend to still further increase the number of Western students. This reason in itself should convince the Faculty of the wisdom of granting students whose homes are at a distance, a vacation as long as Easterners...
...comedy runs in three acts: one in a rising middle-western city of families that would also rise socially; one in Newport at midsummer among the socially ascending and ascended; and one in Boston among those who already dwell in a higher social aether. In all three scenes the central figure is Mrs. Alexander Smith--hyphenated after the first act--who wishes to mount socially and who deserves her progress. At Breezeboro, where the action begins, she is capable of handling simultaneously a perturbed party of women at bridge and a high-placed matron of New York who has dropped...
With Mrs. Smith go a little company of lightly sketched, diversified, and amusing personages: her husband who provides the money for this social pilgrimage and takes the right of free comment upon it for his compensation; her secretaries, a well contrasted Boston youth of the aether and a western girl of less rarified atmosphere; the Russian prince, exotic and amorous, that she gathers into her train; women of Breezeboro, women of Newport, women of Boston--aesthetic, intellectual, philanthropic, or "merely" social; and finally, entertaining "specimens" of the "younger set" of society in Boston and of the University in Cambridge...
...most direct route to the game from any point in or through Boston is via Western avenue cars. People leaving the game are strongly advised to return via Western avenue and avoid the congestion at the old bridge. Cars will run every minute by this route...