Word: western
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...which until the last three of four years has seemed an impregnable fortress. Since the Boxer war, however, the attitude of the literati has rapidly changed from hostility to interest and confidence in occidentals and their civilization. The Chinese are looking for another religion and are modernizing their education. Western influence must operate through the educated class, and the strategic points are the cities...
...playing of H. C. Egan '05, captain of the University team, was consistently excellent throughout the season and culminated fittingly in his winning the national amateur championship at Baltusrol. Besides the western championship, which he won this year for the second time, he secured the chief cup in the Ravinoaks and Onwentsia tournaments, was runner-up to G. S. Lyon in the Olympic tournament just finished at St. Louis, won the low score medals in the qualifying rounds of the western and national amateur tournaments, and together with W. E. Egan '05, won the Lake County foursome cup at Onwentsia...
Parker, H.S., Western Electric Company...
...Seton, well known as an artist, author and lecturer, was born in England in 1860. He was educated at the Toronto Collegiate Institute, Canada, and the Royal Academy, London. From 1866 to 1870 he lived in the great forests of Canada, and spent five years on the western plains of the United States. In 1886 he was appointed official naturalist to the government of Manitoba, and published two books on the birds and mammals of that province...
...Western civilization is built on economic principles--Oriental civilization on morals. The basis of Burmese society, which has not the slightest connection with that of India, is Buddhism, some conception of which we must have to explain the character and institutions of Burma...