Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...look for students. The low standard of scholarship which is maintained in many of the preparatory schools in the Southwest prevents the colleges which receive their pupils from demanding as a requisite for admission any very advanced course of study. And yet the true cause of the inability of Western colleges to compete in scholarship with the colleges of the East, cannot fairly be ascribed to the low standard of scholarship in the preparatory schools. If Western colleges could for awhile forget their more immediate interests in a higher consideration of the future; if they could, ignoring the present, look...
...northern brethren. For something entirely novel and original, however, one must look to the West, to the so-called seats of learning that have sprung up with such appaling rapidity where lately the majestic red-skin roamed. Every month there come, with a whoop as it were, various ultra-western publications of a most startling appearance as to paper, advertisements and contents, with "please exchange" on the cover. They mean to play no second part to the journals of the effete East and the manner in which they receive any patronizing remarks makes the offending eastern editor glad that...
...comment. "Rescued from a watery grave! For particulars ask Smith." Here is something that plays vividly on the imagination. And too it imparts genealogical information. We learn with interest that a branch of the Smith family has been bold enough to go west and inflict its bane on western printers of college catalogues, who find the capital s's in their fonts far below the demand. "Arnold's father spent Sunday with him." Our sympathy for Arnold has no bounds. "Miss Daisy Lovejoy climbed the hill Saturday." A daisy on a hill-side is a picture that appeals...
...takes some time for us to get west again. But once there, we are doomed to another sudden return. A western journal tells us, "Johnson has the heart disease." Home again! Indeed this is too much. The heart disease has gone west. Suffering students of the west, we give you our sympathy...
...shock we received from the last item is diminished but little, when it dawns upon us that the item was merely a tribute to western co-education. We find other tributes of a similar nature, for example, "MacPherson has a girl." "Adams called on Miss Harbrook Tuesday evening and was late in getting home." "Bronson spent last Sunday in Marshville. Bronson is spending too many Sundays in Marshville." "Hunter has a girl," etc., etc. All these items are refreshing. We read them, throw aside the western journals, lie back in our armchairs and think until we fall asleep. Then...