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Hitherto it has been the general custom in the East to regard Western colleges with undisguised ridicule and contempt. They have been looked upon as laughable imitations, or, rather, travesties of the old established institutions of the East. It is true that many of these colleges have brought about this sentiment by the foolish ostentation with which they announced themselves "universities;" but notwithstanding this, it is an error to think that these provincial colleges are useless, yes, pernicious affairs, doing more evil than good. It is said that there ought to be two or three good universities in the country...
Last night Lawrence Barrett produced a new play in New York, entitled "Pendragon," written by a Western journalist...
Rossi and Mlle. Rhea, both failures in the East, are very popular in the Western cities...
...should go hand in hand with the upward extension of the college course." But, as this writer says, the great difficulty is to get parents and the heedless public to recognize the great difference between American universities like Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia, and colleges like most of our immature Western sisters; and because of this these institutions are continually retarded in their progress and growth...
...western editor informs his readers that "OEdipus Tyrannus" is a very interesting little musical drama in Greek, written for the Harvard boys by two of the professors, "Sophocles and Paine." - [World...