Word: oestrus
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Oestrus is so vulgar that we are reluctant to acknowledge its undeniable cleverness...
...wanton lapwing gets himself another crest," the &OEstrus has also appeared in new attire. It is now a good-looking paper of nine columns; a size which prevents the publication of those prize essays and orations which appear to be so plentiful at the University of California. We notice, too, a more important change in the tone of the items...
...unfortunate Californian, named Dorn, seems to furnish great amusement to the OEstrus, which gets off three poor jokes on him in the last number. The least vulgar and most brilliant (?) of these is: "Dorn says he has just found out that he is a D. P., - Dorn Phule...
...OEstrus comes out strongly in favor of women's rights, and its "editorial affairs" are to be managed, in part, by young ladies of the University of California. After co-education comes co-editing. The gentler sex is, according to the OEstrus, "an acknowledged superior element in the college." The OEstrus is apparently conscious of its own defects, as the following observation shows : "This acquisition will tend to add dignity and tone to the paper, and prevent it from possibly falling into that low strain which we have seen in some issues of our contemporaries...
...OEstrus, from California, seems to have rather a blunt sting; it is filled with those primitive and exceedingly personal "grinds," which are found only in very youthful and very Western papers, and in a contemporary from Connecticut, which we need not mention more explicitly. We learn from the OEstrus that California colleges are like our own, in some respects at least. There, as here, the editors have to write the papers; there, as here, athletics are neglected, and so on through the list of grievances. For purity of style and refinement of taste, we commend this item...