Word: portion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There have been few stories in recent magazine literature so extraordinary in its plot and so forcible in its vivid descriptions as the late William Douglass O'Connor's "Brazen Android," the concluding portion of which appears in the Atlantic Monthly for May. If the first part of the romance was remarkable, it was at least within the lines in which story tellers are accustomed to confine themselves; but the character introduced in the second part is so inexplicable, and his action in the story so tremendous, that what has seemed but strange hitherto becomes now the merest commonplace...
...Glee Club sang "Hark, hark, my soul" and "Abide with me." After Prof. Peabody's address, J. D. Merrill, L. S., sang a portion of an anthem, "For they are in peace." Mr. Locke began the services with Beethoven's March on the Death of a Hero, and closed with Chopin's Funeral March...
...very glad to note Harvard's growing strength in the far Western States. In the years before the war, almost all of Harvard's graduates settled in the East, while a large portion of Yale's went to the West. Of late years, however, many of Harvard's representative have been going west of the Mississippi. Their presence there shows in the energy and strength of the Harvard Clubs which they have established; it shows in the royal welcome they have given to their former teacher. His presence and words, in turn, have given renewed zest to the interest they...
...yearly expenses for training table by three class crews, the freshman football, and the four 'varsity teams has been eleven thousand dollars. It is a question how much of this large sum has been pure profit divided among the boarding houses where the teams have trained. A very considerable portion, at any rate, of the money has been clear gain for the boarding houses; and by the new plan the teams are to get a little of this profit. Under the old system, our teams have had to support five different boarding places; under the new scheme they will have...
...colleges. In none of them are the libraries so well equipped or so generally used as at Harvard. The statistics at Yale show that the percent of students using the library is much below that of Harvard; and that of the books which are used, by far the greatest portion are works of fiction. Such facts would seem to indicate that the method of conducting the courses at Harvard is largely to account for the increased use of general literature. This method is to unite, with regular text-books, a large amount of outside reading. At the other colleges this...