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Then the traveler had to alight, get something to eat, and see his baggage placed on another train. Still, with all its discomforts, traveling in the worst of cars was better than traveling in the old stagecoaches. Many more steamboats were used, especially on the Great Lakes and the Western rivers.
旅客不得不下車吃東西并查看他們在另一節車廂上的行李。雖然有這些不便之處，乘坐最為糟糕的火車旅行也勝過乘坐老式的四輪馬車；更多的汽船投入使用，在五大湖和西部的河流上更是如此。
367. Education.
367．教育
The last thirty years had also been years of progress in learning. Many colleges were founded, especially in the Northwest. There was still no institution which deserved the name of university. But more attention was being paid to the sciences and to the education of men for the professions of law and medicine. The newspapers also took on their modern form. The New York Herald, founded in 1835, was the first real newspaper. But the New York Tribune, edited by Horace Greeley, had more influence than any other paper in the country. Greeley was odd in many ways, but he was one of the ablest men of the time. He called for a liberal policy in the distribution of the public lands and was forever saying, "Go West, young man, go West." The magazines were now very much better than in former years, and America's foremost writers were doing some of their best work.
最近這三十年也是學習方面進步的三十年，國家創辦了許多學院，特別是在西北部地區學院更多，但仍然還沒有哪個學院可以叫做大學。人們更加注意科學和成人教育，注重培養法律和醫藥方面的專業人員。報紙也換上了現代面孔，創辦于1835年的《紐約先驅報》是第一份真正的報紙。但是，由郝瑞斯o格瑞勒主編的《紐約論壇報》在全美的影響最大。格瑞勒有許多特異之處，他是那個時代的精英之一，他號召一種分發公共土地的自由政策，并且一直在宣講"去西部，年輕人，去西部"。雜志比前些年大為改進，美國的一些一流作家在雜志上發表他們的杰作。
