Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...announcement is made today that representatives from the various college training units of the Eastern and Middle States will confer at the University May 28. Although a demonstration in the Fresh Pond trenches will be an interesting feature of the program, yet the real importance is the chance to take steps toward co-operative action among the various corps. As the University took the lead in the spread of military education by securing instructors trained in the school of experience, so now we welcome a conference to universalize the war preparations of undergraduates...
Reports from eastern universities show that last semester an inordinately large number of students were discharged on account of deficiency in their studies. Western institutions did not figure so prominently...
...scarcely conceivable that Germany will be guided by any scruples concerning the rights of the small Slavic peoples. On the contrary, the traditional imperial policy indicates the desirability and need of striking while the iron is hot, and devoting all energy to a complete success in the Eastern theatre of war. Moreover, from a military point of view, the softness of the ground and the great strength of the Allied lines portend little success for an offensive in Flanders...
...headquarters of the Bursar, who formerly occupied the eastern part of the ground floor of Dane Hall, will be in the Varsity Club for the remainder of the year unless the Corporation takes special action. Other rooms in the Varsity Club are being used by the Economics Department, which was also located in Dane until the fire last February. Captain Parker, commandant of the University Ensign School, who was also forced to change his office because of the fire, will continue to have his headquarters in Wadsworth House...
...Bird, their holy and mystic eagle, in the skies, and he, too, was followed by countless sweeping hosts. And much nearer home, the Winged Victory was seen marching athwart the skies the other night, a flaming sword in her hand, and advancing in triumph from the western to the eastern horizon--betokening the overcoming of the Germans by the aid of America. Scarcely a day passes without the record of some warlike and victorious sign...