Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Yale and Princeton in particular among the eastern colleges have considered a plan of an alumni day for preparatory school men. This plan is to set one Saturday during the spring when all undergraduates may go back to their respective schools, and be excused from college appointments on that day. The principals of many of the schools, including Andover and Exeter, have already expressed their approval of such a plan and promised the colleges their heartiest support in settling the question of the date...
...Harvard could work out a plan with the neighboring preparatory schools, and in conjunction with the other eastern colleges, one more important step would be made towards a closer union between school and college...
...power of human reason, proclaimed that the truth might only be discovered by the free discussion of varied ideas . . . and in the end these men triumphed, and with this triumph persecution ceased. The innocence of error was everywhere acknowledged." This is news to many--to the Jews of Eastern Europe, who hold to the view that religious persecution is even now a real and terrible force; to the writer of an editorial on the recent Haverhill riots in this very number of the Monthly; to our philosophers, who after centuries of free discussion are still seeking the truth...
...track season opens today with the preliminary events in the Pennsylvania Relay Carnival at Franklin Field, Philadelphia. The events comprise high and preparatory school relay races, in which all the prominent Eastern schools will be represented. The 440 hurdles will probably have few entries, as it is a hard event and not many hurdlers can cover the distance in fast time. The sprint and distance medley relay races are the most important events on today's program. In the sprint medley race, the first and second men run 220 yards, the third 440 yards and the fourth 880 yards...
...sprint medley race will be fought out between Pennsylvania, Yale and Princeton. Chicago, Wisconsin, and Michigan have fast quartets but not up to the calibre of the Eastern colleges. The University has not entered a team in either of the medley relays...