Word: portion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...they would behave themselves and stay where they belong no one would object seriously to their presence. But they plainly come to make nuisances of themselves. They get in front of the seats if possible, indulge in athletics on their own account, in short run wild over a considerable portion of the field. They should be kept...
...stricken out. Since that time the spirit of the undergraduates has changed greatly. It is a spirit at once freer and higher than the old one. To the cultivation of this newer earnestness in the religious life of the undergraduates the university preachers have contributed much. A great portion of the students are distinctly identified with religious movements; it cannot be denied that many others do not occupy such a position. There is, however, no sharp dividing line between two such classes. Both are in earnest; both are searchers after truth. Perhaps the students themselves may not have always realized...
After a careful reading of the existing correspondence we are unable to find any expression, on your part, of dissatisfaction in regard to any portion of our original proposition, save that which relates to a fifth game and the arrangements therefor as modified by us. In consideration of our unqualified agreement in regard to four games, as arranged, we should think it very unfortunate if we could not drop all thought of a fifth game and decide to play the four games...
...wool schedule in the Act of 1867. He then took up the present schedule and discussed it at length. He did not attempt anything more than an interpretation of the meaning of the paragraphs of the schedule, preferring not to criticize the schedule at all. His exposition of this portion of the tariff was made more clear by the specimens which he exhibited of the different grades of wools and woollen goods subject to duty under the last tariff act. After the lecture Mr. Kittredge spent some time with the members of the club in an informal discussion of points...
...something of a relief to turn from the tension of "The Brazen Android" to the portion of a hitherto unpublished journal of Richard Henry Dana, which describes a voyage on the Grand Canal of China. The most charming part of the paper is that where Mr. Dana gives us a picture of the exquisite courtesy and politeness of a certain Chinese gentleman named U-u. This U-u showed a characteristic bit of Chinese courtesy-which might be recommended to Harvard men-when, declining to smoke more than one or two puffs of a cigar given him by a friend...