Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...town of Edmonton, from which Mr. Hall comes, is one of the most prosperous in the vicinity of the fertile Peace River country. A short time ago the city adopted the interesting experiment of the single tax. Mr. Hall has recently been lecturing at several eastern universities, and will be prepared to answer questions on the industrial and economic possibilities of the Province...
From an analysis of the geographical distribution by divisions of the student body of several eastern universities for the year 1911-12, exclusive of summer sessions, it is found that Harvard, Columbia, and Pennsylvania each lead in two divisions and Cornell in one division. If, however, the representatives are taken by states and ties are counted in fractions it is found that Harvard leads in 20 2-3 states of the Union, Columbia in 12 5-6, Yale in 4 2-3, Pennsylvania in 4, and Princeton...
...view of the remarkable growth and prosperity which nearly all the universities of the West have enjoyed during the past decade, it is of interest to note that the eastern universities have nevertheless increased at a more rapid rate in the divisions outside those in which they are located than in their own divisions. A further proof of the more local nature of the western institutions is found in a comparison of the position which state representation occupies in relation to total enrollment in both the eastern and western universities. For example, the largest percentage among the eastern universities...
...thus appears that the representative eastern universities are continuing to grow more and more national in character, that the state universities of the West, with the sole exception of Michigan, are much more local, that the same is true to an even greater degree of the southern universities, and, lastly, that the foreign delegations at our higher institutions of learning are constantly on the increase...
...consensus of newspaper opinion suggests the following All-Eastern line...