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Excluding the city of Washington, the section of the country from Mary-land to Texas is represented in this college by only twenty-five men, -a number only slightly exceeding the representation in the university of the western city of San Francisco. Of course, the cause for this small showing of Southerners here is the impoverished state of the South since the war. Only a wealthy region sends men to college. But, in view of the present growth of the South toward prosperity this cause should soon be operating less and less. In fact, we hear that the number...
...spring, and in some parts of Ontario is played throughout the entire year, winter and all. The game is confined almost exclusively to Ontario. Here we have fifty or more first-class clubs, the majority of them belonging to either of two Associations, an Eastern and a Western. The deciding of the championship of each of the Associations is the means of creating rivalry which does much towards the advancement of the game...
Qnite a party of western men started for home on Saturday in a body. They expect to make a very pleasant journey together...
...until two centuries later that Petrarch revived the study of the Latin classics. The promised land, however, of Greek antiquity he was only permitted to see from Pisgah. He could only weep over the Homer he could not read. The first Greek student of Western Europe was Boccaccio, and he was never more than a student. But at the close of the fourteenth century a really competent teacher of Greek, Manuel Chrysoloras, found his way to Italy, and then the work began in earnest. The first half of the fifteenth century was the age of collecting manuscripts, so that...
...Western exchanges contains a marriage column, describing briefly the time and place the alumni of the college it represents, met their matrimonial fate...