Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trend in football got underway the day these teams met in the giant Allston horseshoe. For until 1903, college football games had been, for the most part, informal get-togethers between the sons of well-to-do Eastern families...
This competition started with the Harvard National Scholarships and it has extended principally to the small colleges. Authorities have been tempted to make a student's need a secondary consideration, and also let an attempt at geographical distribution outweigh the needs of often more worthy Eastern students...
...complicated real-estate deals. Last week he invited reporters into his office to disclose his biggest deal yet. He had just bought control from the Chrysler family of the famed, spire-topped Chrysler Building, its annex, the Chrysler Building East, and the nearby Graybar Building† owned by Eastern Offices, Inc. Price: $52 million. It was the biggest office-building transaction in modern real-estate history, approached only by the sale of the Empire State Building for $51.5 million...
...gray-flanneled gentlemen who invade the distant regions of the United States selling Eastern colleges to Western students have an extremely difficult task. In the territory of strong state universities, of community ties, fraternities, and low tuitions, they must speak of something which is at best a reputation. They must build almost solely upon this reputation to outbid the local universities. It is a hard job for everyone, but for the few overworked men from Columbia University, the task may often seem insurmountable...
...hear it from the New York boys and you hear it from outsiders who are wary of schools in a city." Ireland admits that it takes a good deal of convincing to point out to prospective students that Columbia probably offers as much extra-curricular life as any other Eastern school, and probably more social life than a school like Princeton or Dartmouth...