Word: east
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...selections of seven newspapers from various parts of the East--namely, the Boston Post, Boston Herald, Boston Globe, Boston Journal, New York Sun, Brooklyn Daily Eagle and Providence Journal--Brickley, of Harvard, and Thorpe, of Carlisle, in the backfield and Bomcisler and Ketcham, of Yale, at end and centre respectively, were unanimously chosen for the All-Eastern football team. Felton was given the other end position by four of the seven papers. For the tackle positions Storer is the leading candidate, all but two of the papers favoring him. Pennock, of Harvard, and Brown, of Annapolis, are both chosen...
Randall has proved extremely well adapted to the purpose for which it was chosen. A stack four stories in height about as large as the present East stack of Gore, has been erected which accommodates approximately 400,000 volumes. The delivery room will be arranged as usual, and will be as complete and efficient as that in Gore. Over the delivery room, a reference room has been constructed, and also a reading room. This latter, which seats about 24 people, is not for general use, but will be open only to those having permission to enter the stacks. Other arrangements...
...committee for the selection of Rhodes Scholars from Massachusetts met yesterday afternoon and, from among several candidates selected George Hussey Gifford '13, of East Boston. Three nominations, all Harvard men, were made on the basis of competitive examinations in Latin, Greek, and mathematics, the successful candidate being then decided upon by the committee...
...Park team of Chicago defeated Everett Saturday 32 to 14 in a remarkably well played high school football game. The difference in the style of play used in the East and West was well illustrated, Oak Park playing, an open game with many basket ball passes back of the line, and Everett straight line rushes varied only by forward passes and a few end runs...
...majority of the eastern colleges, and especially the endowed universities of the East, have experienced very moderate gains in the numbers of students enrolled, whereas the state universities of the West have increased greatly in size during the last few years. This seems to indicate that students are no longer as willing as formerly to go far from home to college. This tendency is being combatted by Harvard and other large eastern universities by offering large scholarships to men in far removed districts, but as yet this effort seems to have had little effect...