Word: portion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Italian Renaissance was in sculpture and painting, which was perhaps the greatest the world has ever seen. The architecture of the period did not show much change but Professor Moore said he would devote the rest of his lecture to illustrating it in order to finish that portion of the subject...
...days, for this purpose alone, in a Boston hotel. Furthermore, business and professional men-graduates-from Boston or from a distance, would in many instances be unable to spare three days to see exactly what they now see in one. These would all be forced either to lose a portion of the exercises or to stay away altogether. In this dilemma no one should be placed if it can possibly be avoided...
...Charles W. Birtwell '82, general secretary of the Boston Children's Aid Society, chairman of the Committee on Charities and Correction of the Boston Municipal League, and member of the Mayor's Advisory Board on the Public Institutions of Boston, was asked to give a portion of his time to the direct administration of the work. $1200 was quickly raised to meet the expenses of the first year, and a year later $600 for the year that ends this month...
...Overlooking the floor of the gymnasium will be a great balcony, Suspended from the ceiling, where it runs over the gymnasium and circling the entire interior of the building, is to be built a running track 12 feet wide and nine laps to the mile. In the southern portion of the building will be athletic rooms, boxing rooms, fencing rooms and directors' appartments...
...large portion of the investigatory work has been in the field of stellar spectra. Professor Pickering, in conjunction with others, has derived a new method of determining the relative motion of two stars in the line of sight. The method depends on the calculation, by means of photographic plates, of the relative variation in the position of the spectra of the two moving stars. There is reasonable belief that this method will enable such calculations to be made with a degree of accuracy hitherto unobtainable. The spectra of many obscure stars have been carefully studied, and in some cases, peculiar...