Word: westernizes
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...currently reported by the press that a "certain Western editor, Proposes to leave his fortune by will to found a chair of practical journalism in some Eastern college,-presumably Harvard or Yale. And although there is a delightful air of vagueness about the statement contained in the words "Western editor" and "fortune" that makes it read after the manner of an old fable, still, like an old fable, it has a moral, and it is of this moral that we propose to say a few words. the whole tone of our colleges is, we think, undergoing a considerable change...
...French and Scots are making in athletic sports and gymnastic exercises. "We need in America," said the doctor, "a happy combination of all the systems of athletic development as practiced in these countries-the German for strength, the English and Scotch for sport, and the French for grace. The Western States adopt for the most part the German method, the Eastern and Middle States hail with delight the English athletic games and sports, while in New England the French calisthenics are popular. Each system is good in its way, but in order to make perfect bodies and clear heads...
...batting records of the North Western College League have been published, and they average among the fair and good batsmen higher than our records. This is most likely due to an inferiority in the pitchers...
...published by the senior class of Princeton College, is apparently edited at long range. The address of the gentleman whose name stands first on its editorial staff is-India. If the journal should ever be behind hand in matters of news or should betray an oriental bias in considering Western literature, its attitude would be sufficiently explained by this fact...
...South Wales has eight bicycle clubs; South Australia, 3; Tasmania, 4; Western Australia, 1; Queensland...