Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...currently reported by the press that a "certain Western editor, Proposes to leave his fortune by will to found a chair of practical journalism in some Eastern college,-presumably Harvard or Yale. And although there is a delightful air of vagueness about the statement contained in the words "Western editor" and "fortune" that makes it read after the manner of an old fable, still, like an old fable, it has a moral, and it is of this moral that we propose to say a few words. the whole tone of our colleges is, we think, undergoing a considerable change...
...conclusion, we may state that although adverse to minute or rigid restrictions upon college sports, we fully appreciate the necessity of excluding therefrom all spirit of professionalism, and would willingly see the University of Pennsylvania enter into any reasonable agreement in the matter which the colleges of the Eastern and Middle States might think advisable...
...need in America," said the doctor, "a happy combination of all the systems of athletic development as practiced in these countries-the German for strength, the English and Scotch for sport, and the French for grace. The Western States adopt for the most part the German method, the Eastern and Middle States hail with delight the English athletic games and sports, while in New England the French calisthenics are popular. Each system is good in its way, but in order to make perfect bodies and clear heads the three should be combined. There are probably no sports more invigorating than...
...Purpose of the operations. To capture Richmond and crush the Confederate army in the Eastern zone...
...these warnings, the faculty will persist in their ruinous career, a calamity must inevitably follow. But let us consider the matter in a slightly less nihilistic way. What justification have the faculty for their actions? In a conference held in New York, a number of professors, representing all the Eastern colleges of any importance, decided that the professional spirit had entered to a too great extent into almost all our college athletics, and that it would therefore be best to check the evil while it was still in their power. Accordingly, they recommended the adoption of the resolutions, which...