Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...existence like a mushroom, no matter how great a golden mine is available, nor how deep the purse of the founder. Mr. Clark is doubtless sincere in thinking that another institution of learning is necessary in the State, but we consider that Harvard, Yale and the rest of our eastern colleges are amply able and competent to instruct all seekers after the higher branches of learning. Besides Harvard is abundantly able and willing to assist in a pecuniary way all those whose means are inadequate to an attendance here unless assistance is rendered them; and it has been Harvard...
...Eastern Intercollegiate Foot-Ball Association met in Springfield last Wednesday and adopted the following new rules: After four downs without an advance of five yards the ball must be placed back twenty yards instead of ten yards, as before. A touch down will be made this year at the point the ball crosses the line. It was thought inexpedient to have two referees instead...
Thursday-Division B (Griswold to Wood of Thursday party) will meet Mr. Wolff on the 12.30 train, Eastern R. R. depot, Boston; tickets for Clifton...
Several of our Eastern colleges, including Williams, Princeton and Yale, have been visited this autumn by Prof. Drummond and one or two other graduates of Edinburgh University, who are interested in religious work in our colleges. As Prof. Drummond is expected to be here on Sunday and Monday, a few words with regard to him may be of interest...
...almost every person graduated from a college in the Middle and Eastern States during the last twenty-five or thirty years the name and face of Daniel Pratt are familiar. He, in fact, adopted himself into the fraternity of college undergraduates, looked on them as his friends, made himself at home at their tables and on their campuses, and was never so pleased as when he was exciting himself and, as he believed, arousing their enthusiasm by one of his famous addresses. Pratt's origin and early history were not known to his student acquaintances. That...