Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Here is a specimen of western base-ball reporting as shown in the Cincinnati Enquirer: "Umpire Young seems to be a sublime ignoramus, who adds bull-headed obstinancy to the most prodigious bump of vanity that mortal ever possessed...
Judge Gideon Wells, president of the Yale Alumni Association of Western Massachusetts, is put forward by the Springfield Republican for fellow of Yale College. His choice, it is urged, would be a proper recognition of Massachusetts' interest in the old university...
Twenty years ago at Amherst College a sophomore, who is now a distinguished Western lawyer, introduced a new method of hazing. At midnight, accompanied by ten or twelve of his classmates, he would enter a freshman's room with a basket of young chimney swallows. When his companions had seated themselves solemnly in a circle, he proceeded to open the baskets and let the swallows fly. The fun then consisted in witnessing the poor freshman's attempts to catch them which often lasted until dawn. [Harpers Weekly...
...Daily Crimson of Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.) of February 9th, says of Harvard and its poets: 'The work of our poets is the model of the Western college poetasters, and is, therefore, simply another example of our increasing greatness.' This reminds us of that German home philosopher who never tired of praising his wife's domestic executive abilities. At last the old woman, nourished by the warmth of continual praise, endeavored to run both house and husband. Our German turned to her admiringly and said: 'See here, frau, I like importance, but I will be contemned if I like contemned...
...Bourne adduces as another reason to account for Yale's slow growth, the fact that "some sixty per cent. of her students come from outside the state, a large proportion from the West;" that the Western colleges have been improving rapidly of late, and that thus the competition with Yale for this Western contingent is increasing from year to year, - the result of which is detrimental to Yale. Mr. Bourne wholly forgets the fact that Harvard's percentage of undergraduates from the West is not decreasing, but, on the contrary, is growing rapidly and continually. What explanation can he offer...