Word: east
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...university of Zurich has received women on equal terms with man. There are at present in the university thirty-one female students (twenty in medicine, ten in philosophy, and one in chemistry), distributed as follows: seven from Germany, two each from Baden and Schiswig, and one each from Bavaria, East Prussia and Sondershausen. Thirty women have received the Doctor's degree-twenty-three in medicine and seven in philosophy...
...better the more they are played on-we mean bare clay courts. At Princeton no turf courts are used at all. The courts are almost as bare as a billiard table, require but little work, and can be played on half an hour after a rain. The new land east of the new track could be made into bare courts at very little expense, by simply replacing the present thin layer of loam with one of clay, and grading so that the rain would not form puddles. Here is a chance for the officers of the Tennis Association to show...
...tennis tournament will begin at 2 P. M. today, on the courts at the north east corner of Jarvis field. The drawing will be made at 12, and no one will be drawn who has not paid his annual membership assessment of fifty cents. The secretary will be at 4 Little's Block from 9 till 12 today...
...result is attributed much to the want of interest felt by the trustees of Columbia, but the trouble lies deeper. There are but few New York girls of the higher class of mind who desire it. There is not that tendency toward study here which exists in the East and in the West. The young women who would have attended the lectures at Columbia, it is to be feared would have been led there by mixed motives. It would not have been the owl, the bird of Minerva, which would have led them on, but a lark. Certainly they...
...considered something phenomenal out of the natural order of things, and therefore worthy of no particular attention except as a curiosity. But it happens that that same result may be seen wherever women have been admitted to men's colleges. In the few co-educational institutions of the East and the numerous ones of the West the same thing has been repeated over and over again. Given, a marriageable professor in the faculty and one, or several, or many pretty and charming "co-eds"-as the young women in those institutions are termed in the college slang of their student...