Word: portion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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OSWALD G. VILLARD.OWING to the number of candidates for degrees, a large portion of the first balcony seats at the Commencement exercises in Sanders will be reserved for the accommodation of the procession. For this reason no tickets can be issued to candidates this year for the use of friends...
After the long countermarch on North avenue, which allowed the six divisions of the long procession to see a portion of what was ahead and behind them, the procession was reviewed by Governor Wolcott beside the Washington Elm, and by Chief Marshal John Read opposite the Soldiers Monument. After being reviewed the 500 Harvard men marched into the yard by the north gate, and after hearty cheers for Harvard, Marshal Borden and Band Leader Howard, dispersed...
...older rocks. The region is one of the most interesting, geologically, in New England, and we are especially privileged in having the opportunity to go with Professor Emerson as leader of the party, he having devoted many years to the study and geological mapping of the central portion of the state...
...photographs, showing the face of the structure where the river has washed away a portion of it, illustrates the great wall one hundred feet in height. In this wall there is evidence that the place has been occupied at successive periods and that one city has been built over the ruins of another. The explorations of the Museum have shown that many of the large mounds are really the ruins of temples built of care fully cut blocks of stone. In these temples are a number of chambers, several of which have been cleared in the process of exploration...
...this week. This is the first general excursion conducted by Professor Shaler in person for a number of years; it is open to all members of the University. Leaving the Union Station at 8.20 a. m., the party will reach Gloucester at 9.28. The morainal deposits in the central portion of the island will first be visited, a district known as Dogtown Commons. In this field is an interesting exhibition of frontal moraine showing a considerable variety of deposits. The field is particularly notable for the decayed boulders, some of which were originally of very large size...