Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Atlantic coast, August 22d. Utica, Catskill, N. Y., Meriden, Connecticut, and the Delaware Water Gap will be the different head-quarters from which excursions will be made. The third course will consist of advanced individual study, and the work will be carried on chiefly in New England, Eastern New York, and New Jersey...
...other day, going to see John Harvard's grave in the old cemetery at Charlestown, I found the inscriptions on the monument almost. completely worn away by the weather. The one on the eastern side was entirely illegible and it was only with the help of favoring shadows that, after many tribulations, I deciphered the words on the western side. The monument was erected by the graduates of 1828 in honor of the founder of their beloved University. Will not the undergraduates of 1891 see to it that the inscriptions are kept in good condition? The expense would be comparatively...
...LEE.THE Seminary in American History will meet on Monday evening at 7.30 p. m. in M. 20. Professor Hart will speak on "A tour through the Eastern Shore of Virginia...
...opponents to this line of reasoning, those who are for the change, would seem to gain a point from President Eliot's observation, if it be accurate. He says that the Western colleges will soon be practically as highly developed as our Eastern colleges; and that, consequently, men will stop coming to the Eastern colleges from the West. The opponents to the proposed reduction at Harvard claim, as we have seen, that such would not be the result. If they are willing to acknowledge so remarkable a growth and future career for our Western colleges, they must draw conclusions diametrically...
...part of this delegation is not the college but the graduate and professional schools. harvard cannot pretend to compete long with the growing western universities in the matter of rudimentary college education. But in the higher departments Harvard has a great start on the new western universities, and as eastern brains and enterprise are as great as western, there is no reason why Harvard should not keep her lead and continue to attract advanced students from the West. This means, however, that increased attention must be paid to the graduate and professional schools...