Word: mid-western
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...editorial from the Chicago Tribune, reprinted herewith, is an interesting revelation of mid-Western ideas of education. Is the merit of an educational institution forever to be judged by the success of its football team...
Best of all, perhaps, is the inevitable takeoff on some of the new Mid-Western American realists in story writing, who have been courting precisely this bath of mirth for nearly four years. The execution is performed in a short story entitled "Anna's Ham". It is complete and pulverizing, and the more so because the tale in which the hideous deed is done is a first rate piece of story telling in itself, keenly alive, and crowded with imaginative touches. The thing is studded with gems of Rabelaisian understatement, and it moves with a gallop of rustic passion...
...have promised, however," he continued, "to give my decision on the matter by next Thursday." Dean Pound was visited on Saturday by a committee from the mid-western university, bringing with them the official offer of the presidency. The committee, which conferred with Dean Pound at the Parker House, consisted of John Callahan, the Wisconsin state supervisor of public instruction, and Theoder Kronshage, chairman of the Wisconsin University board of regents. The committee left Boston Saturday evening...
Nevertheless, the Chicago organization closely parallels the Williamstown technique, the chief difference being that the professors who serve the select courses are drawn principally from Mid-Western universities. Three foreign lecturers have been secured...
...various sections of the United States originated in the regional dialects of the British Isles. Thus New England derives its speech largely from southeastern England?though the influence of Ireland has been a very disturbing one during the past few generations. Professor Kurath began with a discussion of mid-Western pronunciation...