Word: portion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...trees from a legal point of view, and yet it has a right to protest against any such outrageous defacement of the college yard. We have come to look upon these trees as a part of our possessions, whether rightly or wrongly. This removal not only will reduce that portion of the yard to a bare and dreary spectacle, but it will also sacrifice a sentiment which every one who is fond of his college associations must be loath to lose. Will not the proper college authorities take a stand against such action...
This club was orginally organized for the purpose of satisfying the needs of students who did not live in the city, and from this small beginning it has gradually developed until it has now become a positive necessity to a large portion of the University students. Not only does it enable students of limited means to live more cheaply and better than they could otherwise, but it also offers an opportunity for work to those who desire it. The table service is performed by students whose hours of labor are determined by the governing board of the club...
...partly because of the size of the place; partly, perhaps, because the men did not put themselves forward sufficiently; partly, probably, because the college authorities made no special move to welcome them. Tonight every new member of the University will have an opportunity to meet a very large portion of the Faculty and representatives of the Corporation and Board of Overseers. Everything has been done by the authorities to make the affair pleasant and profitable and its success or failure is now in the hands of the new comers. They can make it or spoil it as they choose...
...statement in the Princetonian relative to Harvard-Yale game is interesting. Its editorial comment is still more so; a portion of it relative to the subject of umpires, we take the privilege of quoting...
...formation of a Roman Catholic Society last night was a natural result of the common bond of religious interests among a considerable portion of the students. We welcome it as we would welcome any religious organization. Is opportunities and its line of work is much the same as those of other societies of its kind. Its discouragements and obstacles will differ but little from theirs. If anything, they will be even greater because of the prejudice which so many bear to ward this particular denomination. And yet this very difficulty opens at once a field of work where much good...