Word: portion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...request the Pope Professor of Latin, Emeritus, to give at his pleasure instruction to such advanced students as he may choose to receive, but without coming under obligation to give instruction during any definite portion of the academic year...
...committee who are arranging for the Harvard night have now completed the initial portion of their work. The committee consider that their only function is to afford some practical method by which the students may be enabled to make use of the offer which has been made. Inasmuch as there seems to be not the best of chances that Mr. Irving will address the students, this other opportunity for Harvard to come into touch with the great artist will be more eagerly taken...
When Mr. Irving was asked to give an address to the students, it was suggested that it would probably make a very pleasant occasion if Harvard men and their friends were allowed to purchase as great a portion of the tickets for some particular evening as they wished to do. Mr. Irving and the management were favorable to the idea, and the matter was, by them, entrusted to the CRIMSON. It was thought to be the most fitting mode of procedure to ask the presidents of the two upper classes to select a committee which should put the idea into...
...Federal officials alone. This enormous sum, raised nominally for the public service, is regarded only as a fund for helping the interests of the party in power, for supporting its friends, and for realizing its own private gains. There is a vast horde of office seekers striving for some portion of these immense spoils, and the struggle is one into which no man of brains and character is willing to enter. This unwillingness is increased by the great uncertainty in the tenure of office; for the official is appointed solely in the interests of his party, and no mere merit...
...special cases the substitution of equivalents for a portion of the requirements indicated above may be allowed...