Word: eastern
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Only the European and the most advanced of the Eastern countries know of the predominant place that Harvard occupies. In South America Pennsylvania, by means of the explorations carried on there by the professors of that university, is the best-known of North American educational institutions. In the Far East Yale has more men connected with the foreign trade of the United States than Harvard, while Cornell with a demand for its engineers which never ceases is represented by a number of graduates greater than those of Harvard and Yale combined. As the number of college men permanently or temporarily...
...meeting and torchlight parade. The results of all the straw votes taken in the different colleges cannot be fashioned into a prophecy of today's result. Yet the apparent strength of Wilson in the Middle West in borne out by the vote of the colleges in that district. The Eastern universities gave Hughes a comfortable margin with one exception, which is Columbia. The latter contains such a great mass of cosmopolitan and representative students that the closeness of Columbia's straw-vote should be considered more seriously as a forecast of the actual result than the large majorities of other...
Preparations are now being made in Eastern football camps for the big games of the year. New coaches are flocking into New Haven from all parts of the country. Yesterday's football mentors visiting the Yale fold included Foster Rockwell, head coach ten years ago. Jack Cates, one time end, and former Annapolis coach, has charge of the ends this fall while Rockwell will instruct the quarterbacks...
...sporting editor of the New York Sun thinks that "Cornell to date has put forward a scoring machine every bit as wonderful as that which carried them to the eastern title last year." No serious injuries resulted in the Williams game so that Cornell will have its full team to meet Bucknell next Saturday...
...five countries, Albania, Italy, Hungary, Norway, and Russia, the last-named having two each. The Orient, in which Turkey and Egypt are included by speech if not by geographical lines, is represented by 51 students, China having the lion's share of 35. Japan, Korea, India, are the far-Eastern countries and Turkey, Syria and Egypt the nearer ones. There are some eight Armenians in the school but they are already homed in this country and hail from some one of the larger cities and are counted in with Americans...