Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scrap at Watson should be good, clean fun, and of major concern to everyone in the Eastern hockey scramble...
Undoubtedly the average quality of our students has greatly improved. I have heard administrators of colleges in the South and West complain bitterly about the trek of high quality students to the Eastern prestige schools. This tendency is also reflected in the recent National Defense Education Act, which to some extent takes away from the student the choice of his college. If he wants a fellowship or a loan from the Federal Government, he must apply to the institution. Hence the student's freedom of choice is thus restricted, with a view to slowing up the gains of prestige colleges...
...hundred and twenty-five students from major eastern colleges attended the thirteenth annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton Colloquium held at the University over the weekend. Theme of the meeting was "Jewish Life as Reflected in Modern Jewish Literature...
Years Ahead. P-B's success is tied to one man. President Walter Heber Wheeler. 61. Towering (6 ft. 4 in.) Walter Wheeler was an All-Eastern football tackle at Harvard in 1916, a subchaser skipper and Navy Cross winner in World War I, and a champion sailor. He joined the company in 1919, when it was a struggling small business directed by his stepfather, the late Walter H. Bowes. Bowes teamed with Inventor Arthur H. Pitney to develop the first crude postage meter. Wheeler went to Washington in 1920, presided over the demonstration of the machine that...
...long regarded by the British as one of their chief undercover foes in the years of battling over the eastern Mediterranean island bastion...