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Word: easterner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
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Chicago won the Western championship last Thursday by defeating Wisconsin in a close game by the score of 18 to 16, while Pennsylvania gained the Eastern title by defeating Georgetown, the champion team of the South, last Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: National Basketball Championship Series Starts Tonight | 3/21/1908 | See Source »

...Coming Struggle in Eastern Asia," by B. L. P. Weale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Recent Additions to Union Library | 3/18/1908 | See Source »

...disadvantage entirely due to a misunderstanding. The advantages are many. Besides the well-recognized advantages which are open to everyone, the Westerner has the advantage of being in a new and different situation, so he very naturally looks at things from quite a different standpoint than does the Eastern man; and is perhaps more able to take things for what they are worth. Whereas if he were in a Western college or in an Eastern college composed largely of Western men, he would be in a more congenial atmosphere from the beginning, and his view-point would change but little...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 3/13/1908 | See Source »

...necessary to discuss Harvard's being "a rich man's college," as everyone who knows us knows what an utterly silly statement that is. As to the claim that there is favoritism shown towards Eastern men on the athletic teams the same can be said. The plain and simple answer is that the much greater proportion of Eastern men naturally bring a proportional representation on the teams

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 3/13/1908 | See Source »

There has been considerable agitation of late on the part of many of the colleges to have the intercollegiate meet of May 29 and 30 serve as the qualifying games for the Eastern college athletes. The college men are trained to do their best in this meet and there is great danger of their being stale a week later, thus depriving the American team of some of their best men and lessening materially their chances for success. Since the larger part of the team is usually composed of college athletes, there is reason to suppose that this proposed change will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trials for Olympic Games on June 6 | 3/13/1908 | See Source »

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