Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Several of our exchanges find it difficult to understand why Harvard should call herself a university. In speaking of the matter the Hesperian Student, published at Nebraska University, says that the difference between the courses of Eastern and Western institutions is so small as to be hardly noticeable...
...give ample space for all the additions which may be made for many years to come. It measures 28 by 45 on each story, with a bay 13 by 19, while the upper story has two additional rooms, each 28 by 33. Communicating with the book room on the eastern side, is the professors' general room, 28 by 33, reached from the vestibule by the turret staircase before mentioned. This will be fitted with a carved fireplace like that in the large reading room. Leading from this is the dean's room, which also opens into the reading room...
...vigorous attempts are being made among its alumni and friends to raise the necessary money. It has been suggested that the Western alumni take up the matter of raising the $15,000 for the philosophical collection, and that the $50,000 needed in addition be raised in the Eastern States. It is proposed to ask for individual subscriptions of $5,000 each; then of $1,000, and so on till the sum is raised. President Seelye and several professors are doing what they can to place the college in as good condition as it held before the fire...
Several prominent professors in Eastern colleges, among others Prof. Child, of Harvard, have spoken quite highly of the Shakspere course references recently issued by Prof. Demmon. - [Chronicle...
...religious paper in the West throws up its hands in horror at the ungodliness of Eastern students. "Nineteen hundred panes of glass," says one of them, "have been broken by Yale students in the two years the Woolsey was president...