Word: east
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...question is not whether everyone knows everyone else in the University. The question is whether the standards of intimacy are more strict or harder to overleap than at another place. It would be difficult to find any spot east of No Man's Land where no thought is paid to a man' s creed, his intelligence, or his breeding. If such a place were found it is a question whether we should care to go there. A man who has no standards of taste or judgement may well lack standards of anything else...
...metropolis. On the other hand the institution across the way (for which I have a warm spot in my heart) demonstrates democracy after the big, free-and-easy manner of the West, and it is but natural that the democracy of Harvard be governed by the nervous and restrained East. I was indeed pleasantly surprised to find Harvard just as democratic in its way as the institution out West, and with due regard for Mr. Norton's opinions I believe he judged Harvard too quickly...
Major General Wood, who is commanding the Department of the East, arrived in Boston yesterday. Coming out to Cambridge about 11 o'clock, he conferred with President Lowell for an hour. In the afternoon he inspected one of the companies of the R. O. T. C., and later attended the military conference of the six New England governors which began in the State House at 4 o'clock. This conference, convened at Governor McCall's invitation, discussed programs of military preparation and public safety which should be adopted in the event of war between the United States and Germany...
...first Student Conference was called over 20 years ago at Mt. Hermon, and the next year moved to East Northfield, where it has remained since. In recent years more than 20 other conferences have been organized on similar lines...
Sophomores and Freshmen who intend to compete for the business staff are to get in touch with the business manager at once. The work of a business candidate will bring him in touch with large business houses throughout the East and such work will give a highly valuable training to any one who contemplates a business career. Two positions on the staff are open to Sophomores, and Freshmen will be taken on according to the ability of the candidates...