Word: portion
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...required in the By-Laws to be held by Australian ballot. (which is no more than is now done several times every year by the Memorial Hall Dining Association) after a fortnight's notice, with the polls open all day, and the greatest necessary facility of nomination. This portion of the By-Laws, and certain other vital sections, such as those fixing salaries, departments, and policies, so far as possible to be laid down should be amendable after having been once adopted only by a meting at which a very high proportion of members were present and voting...
...Athletic Committee has set aside a portion of Soldiers Field for the use of the team, but, as it is not yet in a condition to be played on, Holmes Field will be used until the new ground has been made ready...
Professor Shaler, the chairman of the conference and the first speaker, told of his experiences in Alaska, in the region of the Fjords. After spending some weeks of careful geological study in that country, Professor Shaler returned to the forest region of the northwestern portion of the United States and made investigations concerning the history of the forest movement after the glacial period. This work was really one of compilation, as Professor Shaler has been studying this region for about forty years...
...same time, constantly in touch with student life and sentiment so as to be conscious of student needs and amenable to student public sentiment. Obviously, no body of men meets all these requirements better than the combined Faculties of the University--the older and tried portion of the teachers devoting their whole lives to the service of the students. Obviously, too, they must not be exposed to risk of personal loss as a result of their disinterested service to their colleagues and the student body, and hence they must be in the position of stockholders of a corporation...
...issued by the present Board of Directors to five stockholders; the present organization will thereupon cease to exist. Certain conditions are specified for acceptance of stock: That the stockholders shall make no personal profit; and they shall provide for the addition each year to the capital stock of a portion of the profits and for the distribution of the rest of the profits to the ticket-holders of the Society. The transfers are to be only to members of the Faculties, as it is proposed to constitute the first stockholders the five members of the Faculty who are now permanent...