Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Following is the representation by section of the three principal Eastern colleges...
President Low of Columbia College has invited representatives of Harvard, Princeton, Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania to cooperate with Columbia in the matter of securing uniformity in the requirements for entrance examinations to the various Eastern colleges, at a conference to be held at Columbia College on Saturday, February...
...Medical School curriculum, the course having been lengthened from three to four years, as has already been done at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and other like institutions. The change will be put into operation beginning with September, 1896. The subject of making uniform entrance examinations for the Eastern colleges, is an important one and its revival has aroused much interest. A further possible development of the plan would give an entrance certificate admitting power at any one of the leading colleges, could satisfactory uniformity of examinations and marking be agreed upon and put into effect...
...open the Mississippi to its mouth, and thereby complete the naval blockade of the rebellious states. Thus only could the immense western territory of Texas and Arkansas, with its great store of recruiting material, and its still more valuable store of grain and supplies, be cut off from the eastern states which relied so largely upon this assistance...
...from above joined Farragut, and the only thing that was needed for the capture of Vicksburg and the conquest of the Mississippi, once for all, was a strong land force. But Halleck was in command and here, as always, he was timid, irresolute. In the west was Vicksburg; in eastern Tennessee was Chattanooga. A great general with Halleck's advantages would have taken both; any prompt courageous man would have taken one; but Halleck straddled between the two and lost both. As a result the war was prolonged a year...