Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...More Western news: "The Dickerson gymnasium of Hillside college was dedicated recently with appropriate ceremonies, in which the college faculty, the mayor of the city, and other distinguished citizens took part. The gymnasium is named for F. B. Dickerson, a graduate of the college who gave $1.500 to the erection of the building, and was present at the dedication. It is said to be the only college gymnasium in the United States - Chicago Times...
...proposed establishment of a new university in California revives the old discussion of the comparative merits of a western and an eastern college. It is maintained that the success of a university does not depend upon its financial resources wholly, but that time and a high standard of instruction are fully as essential. Now that an truly extraordinary opportunity is offered to the West to try the experiment of carrying on a great educational institution, we hope that some attempt will be made to raise the standard of instruction in the West, and that the present complaints against the conduct...
...Association of Collegiate Alumnae." The object of this association, as expressed in its Constitution, is "to unite alumnae of different institutions for practical educational work." The regular members, 420 in number, are women graduates from the academic departments of Cornell, Michigan, Wisconsin, Boston, Wesleyan, Kansas, Syracuse and North-western Universities; Oberlin, Vassar, Smith and Wellesley Colleges, and the Mass. Institute of Technology. Four regular meetings of the association are held during the year in different cities. The members live scattered through thirty states and territories, and thus the work is necessarily accomplished mainly by means of special committees and distribution...
...students of the University of Missouri, have a paper called Truth, of which we see it remarked that: "If it were crushed to earth, it would have its value as top-dressing." The editor writes with a far western flavor. To him the faculty of the university of Missouri are "cranks, idiots, sneaks, knaves and dead-beats." One of the female teachers is vividly alluded to as a "pop-eyed apparition," and the editor has recourse to poetry to describe one of the faculty...
...Lutz, the former German instructor, has received an appointment in a western college...