Word: portion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...reply to an editorial published yesterday, the CRIMSON is asked: "How is a lecturer, or the person who manages the lecture for him, to know beforehand whether there will be a sufficient number of students present to justify the reservation of a portion, small or large, of the hall for their special accommodation...
...case should seats be reserved after the lecture begins however. A plan, frequently tried with success, is to reserve a certain portion of the seats until five or ten minutes before the lecture begins...
...further asked: "Why should seats be reserved for one portion of the audience and not for another, at lectures specifically advertised as 'open to the public' and to which the public is officially invited through the University Calendar?" The custom of reserving seats for members of the University at the Sunday evening services in Appleton Chapel, which are "open to the public," is at once an answer to the question and an example of a successful plan of reserving seats for students most of whom, unlike Cambridge citizens, do not feel that they have the time to go to lectures...
...will of the late Dr. Gardiner Hubbard Scudder bequeaths a portion of his estate to the Corporation of the University, but provides that it be not used for scholarships...
...many as two hundred and fifty men are now working every day in the Mott Haven squad for the different events. Yesterday for the first time trial heats of 40 yards were run by a portion of the sprinters, but on account of the short time the men have been in training they were rather slow, five seconds being about the average time made...