Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...East--namely, the Boston Post, Boston Herald, Boston Globe, Boston Journal, New York Sun, Brooklyn Daily Eagle and Providence Journal--Brickley, of Harvard, and Thorpe, of Carlisle, in the backfield and Bomcisler and Ketcham, of Yale, at end and centre respectively, were unanimously chosen for the All-Eastern football team. Felton was given the other end position by four of the seven papers. For the tackle positions Storer is the leading candidate, all but two of the papers favoring him. Pennock, of Harvard, and Brown, of Annapolis, are both chosen by four papers for the guard positions. Wendell...
Following is a tale giving the percentage increase in the two items of expense considered, namely tuition and board, in some of the eastern colleges. Board Tuition Amherst, 18 27 Columbia, -- 0 Dartmouth, 50 46 Harvard, 22 0 Princeton, 35 6 Smith, 0 50 Tufts, 33 25 Vassar, 16 200 Wellesley, 30 16 Williams, 50 33 Yale...
...salient feature of the figures is the steady gain which has taken place among the western universities during the past year. With the exception of Columbia, for which exact registration figures have not yet been secured, all the eastern universities either show a slight loss or else have remained almost stationary. Dartmouth has shown the greatest loss, being smaller this year by over 100 students, while Columbia has made the greatest gain, followed by the University of California. 1. Columbia, 10,000 2. University of California, 6,659 3. University of Michigan, 4,931 4. Cornell, 4,518 5. Harvard...
...following statistics have been compiled showing that of the seven leading eastern colleges Harvard gives the fewest number of holidays. These holidays include the summer vacation of 1912 and the holidays during the academic year of 1912-13. Harvard is the only college to observe Columbus Day. Four colleges, Harvard, Columbia, Brown, and Pennsylvania observe Washington's Birthday as a holiday. Memorial Day is observed by Harvard, Columbia, Dartmouth, and Brown. Of all the colleges Dartmouth and Brown are the only ones granting a mid-year recess toward the end of January. For the second time in her history, Princeton...
...majority of the eastern colleges, and especially the endowed universities of the East, have experienced very moderate gains in the numbers of students enrolled, whereas the state universities of the West have increased greatly in size during the last few years. This seems to indicate that students are no longer as willing as formerly to go far from home to college. This tendency is being combatted by Harvard and other large eastern universities by offering large scholarships to men in far removed districts, but as yet this effort seems to have had little effect...