Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...most interesting articles in the number discusses the tendencies past and present, of architecture in the west. Mr. Van Brunt is hopeful of a rational and artistic architectural development in the western states. He admits that "the prejudices and desires of the most impartial observer must necessarily color his deductions;" but he says, "I venture to believe, however, that the forward movement has gone far enough to enable us to appreciate the spirit of it, if not to comprehend the general direction of its progress." This spirit he conceives to be the change coming about by natural growth...
...generation of actors, and, with his wife and grandchildren, there are six generations of actors among the Jeffersons. His story of the early days of the American stage, when as a boy, travelling in his father's company, they would settle down for a season in a western town, playing in their own extemporized theatre-the the particulars of the creation of his famous "Rip Van Winkle." how he acted "Ticket-of-Leave Man" before an audience of that class in Australia etc., all this enriched with illustrations and portraits of contemporary actors and actresses, and with anecdotes will form...
...Dartmouth Glee club will take a western trip this Christmas vacation...
...Lawton has gone to the western cities to ask subscriptions to the fund for the excavation of Delphic...
...gentlemen who bought the wrong maps of Central and Western Europe at Sever's, can exchange them if they are in good condition...