Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...advocating such education. The two objections most frequently urged against the advanced training of women are, first, that they are physically incapable of it; and, second, that it will be detrimental to the best interests of society by withdrawing women from domestic life. The first subject undertaken by the Eastern Association was an inquiry into the effect of collegiate education upon the physical condition of women. Elaborate statistics were collected by the Association, and afterwards compiled by the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor. It was the wish of those engaged in the work that these facts should speak...
...glance of the work already accomplished and at what has been begun will indicate the thought of the Association in regard to the second objection made. Among the first plans of the Eastern Association was the formation of a club for the study of the various phases of household sanitary science. Practical investigation was made of the subject of drainage, plumbing, ventilation, etc., a bibliography was prepared, the results of the studies made were put in circulation, and material aid given to others outside of the society on this important but neglected subject. Careful study has also been made...
Dartmouth has arranged practice games of base-ball with Yale, Brown, Technology, and most of the other eastern colleges...
General Armstrong lectured before a large sized audience in Sanders last evening on "the present condition of the Indians and the measures which ought to be taken to alleviate their distress." The arguments which were advanced have already been presented to eastern audiences many times. But the chief interest of the meeting centered in the two Indian students who accompanied General Armstrong. They, in addressing the audience, proved at least one thing, that they feel deeply the wrongs of their countrymen and would spare no efforts to abrogate those wrongs. From an educational point of view this meeting...
...like contemned imputance.' Our German friend used abbreviated expressions, but we can't, you know. The Crimson should know that the difference between a poet and poetaster is that the poet has the imagination, and the poetaster the sense. Further, a Western man generally has more sense than an Eastern man. A Western poetaster, thus overflowing with sense, would show himself rather a poet than a poetaster if he ever imagined so strange a thing as that any college poet could be a decent model for the verses he wishes to palm off as poetry; and he would show himself...