Word: westernizes
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...these papers, if they tried to do so, and could persuade themselves to partially abandon their desperate attempts to be funny, to give their readers interesting and occasionally amusing articles - at least readable articles - and that, too, without falling back to the standard of pretentious heaviness of their Western exchanges. If they want models and examples let them look up certain of their own files of former years, and, if they can do no better, imitate the work done there. But as for the kind of matter they print now, who believes that such inanity is called for or enjoyed...
...trapper, in the Western wilds of this country sets his trap in the vicinity of some well known feeding-ground and relies upon the axiom, that "Nature abhors a vacuum," to secure him a breakfast...
...clerk in one of the departments at Washington, who had for a long time occupied a responsible position, died on Friday last. Saturday, while his body still lay unburied, a Western Congressman appeared at the department and demanded the place for one of his constituents...
...done to enable the university to help original research, and to increase the number of residents who devote themselves to the pursuit of learning. At present large funds are wasted in what are called "prize-fellowships." Unfortunately the land revenues of the colleges have suffered from the competition of Western America, and money is wanting to carry out some of the most desirable improvements. Broadly considered, the advantages of English university education may be said to consist in the combination of college and university life. The Scotch universities afford efficient class teaching; the German universities give the fullest instruction...
...from the article on Eastern colleges in the Oberlin Review quoted in our yesterday's issue; and surely every Harvard man will agree with us in this. Such sentiments are both admirable and truly generous, and far too seldom find utterance either East or West. We fear lest our Western friends, who are often too sensitive to the ignorant sneer of the Eastern undergraduate, will misconstrue our meaning. "In this brotherhood of colleges there is no place for jealousy...