Word: westernizes
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...Joaquin Miller has been moved to indignation by the treatment which Oscar Wilde has received from his audiences in Western New York. He has written the following to Mr. Wilde...
...Sherman has planned an excursion to visit all the Western army posts, starting March...
...this country. Longfellow's "Hiawatha" is almost the only work of any note of this sort; and the popular success of that work has been by no means inconsiderable. A carefully finished and musical poem, "The League of the Iroquois," has recently appeared from the pen of a Western poet, Benj. Hathaway; it is well spoken of by the critics, and it certainly exhibits the richness of the field it takes for poets to work...
...education, is wholly ignored." We will venture to state as to this that the preparation required to enter Harvard and the prescribed work of the freshman year amount probably to as thorough a grounding in the leading departments of human knowledge, as the entire course of most of our Western sisters (e. g. Oberlin) afford in their whole four years. This is not a matter of pride, but simply a matter of fact. This entire discussion in the Nation cannot but serve to clear the public mind on all these questions, and so is to be welcomed. We commend...
...recently-organized league. Steps have been taken to organize a lawn tennis club, and it is hoped that that sport so popular at the East will be introduced here with success. The "Co-eds" should favor it as it will give them a chance to gain renown as athletes (?). Western leagues of base-ball and foot-ball have been formed among several of the Western colleges, and the winner on each is to play the club winning the championship of the Eastern colleges. This will probably take the Rugby Team of the University of Michigan to the East next year...