Word: easterner
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...glimpse of gray ocean and pine-clad islands. The story, as a mere story, amounts to little, but why should it? The book does not purport to be more than a few stray chapters from the lives of a few people, isolated almost absolutely as are the inhabitants of Eastern Maine. Their interests are circumscribed by the hills on one side and the ocean on the other. Yet it seems but natural that the stranger--a smuggler he happened to be--who comes to dwell with them should find himself at home in their tiny circle, and that...
...annual conference of the officers of the Christian Association in eastern colleges will be held beginning Thursday, April 9, and ending Sunday. April 12, at New Haven under the auspices of the Yale University Christian Association. The object of the conference is to exchange ideas and plans for work in the various college Christian associations. Last year's conference was held at Cornell...
...annual convention of the Intercollegiate Civic League will be held in New York today. Delegates are expected from about thirty colleges, among them the Universities of Colorado, North Dakota, and Louisiana, the University of Chicago, and all the principal eastern colleges. The following will represent Harvard: G. G. Ball '08, H. Channing '08, G. Gund '09, R. S. Hoar '09, and H. Van S. Tracy...
...annual Northfield conference for students from the Eastern States and Canada will be held this year from June 26 until July 5 inclusive, at East Northfield, Massachusetts, where the conference has meet annually for the past twenty-two years. Among the speakers are Robert E. Speer, John R. Mott, and Professor Jenks of Cornell, all of whom were leaders at the Conference last year...
...primary object of the conference is to present and discuss important questions of religion and social service of interest to college men, and to develop the religious life and interest in philanthropic work of the Eastern colleges and schools through an interchange of ideas and contact with leaders of thought in the field. Delegates are quartered in tents and dormitories and a baseball series, a tennis tournament, a track meet, a big fourth of July celebration, followed by an enormous bonfire, and inspiring religious meetings addressed by leaders of philanthropic and religious thought are some of the creatures...