Word: westernizes
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...Yale Glee Club, now on its Western trip, met with a sad accident on Saturday evening. While their special car was standing in the station in Charlestown, Indiana, waiting to convey them to Louisville, it was run into by the locomotive of the Cincinnati express train, The express was uninjured but the special car was destroyed. Otis Strong of Auburn, N. Y., had both legs crushed, and one of them at least will have to be amputated. W. W. Crehore of Cleveland, O., had one of his legs badly broken, and C. W. Cutler was severely cut about the head...
...Tilden, a new member of the cientitic School, and a candidate for the nine, led the batting of the Western College Association last year with an average...
...Sophocles' peculiarities in the following words: Professor Sophocles was a scholar of extraordinary attainments. His knowledge of the whole length and breadth of the Greek literature, from Hemer to the present day, could hardly be surpassed, and he had much rare and profound erudition on points on which most Western scholars are ignorant. But he was, on the other hand, little acquainted with modern German scholarship; and the works of the great masters of classic philology in Germany, except so far as they were written in Latin or translated into English, were almost unknown to him, as he never learned...
...longest known Europeans, has undergone less change than any other great centre of population in China. It remains precisely as it was hundreds of years ago, and when once the wall is passed the traveler might for all he can see, be at least a thousand miles from any Western influence. And there is this to be remarked in passing, that though since the eighth century they have been acquainted with foreigners, they like them no better than they did then, and are as ready to be hostile and aggressive to them as they ever were...
Tolman Wheeler, of Chicago, has donated a valuable tract of land in the western division of that city, and advanced $200,000 towards the erection of a preparatory school under the care of the Episcopal church. The design is to be after that of Oxford, a prominent feature of the structure being a chapel and a library to contain 10,000 volumes...