Word: portion
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...work has been done on the ground alloted for a cricket field on the western portion of Soldiers Field. However, work will begin as soon as the frost is out of the ground, and if good enough, the crease will be used for the intercollegiate game...
Work in repairing the upper portion of Trinity Hall, which was recently damaged by fire, will be commenced at once, and most of the rooms will be ready for occupancy on or before April 15. Some of the suites, in which the damage was only by water and of slight extent, will even be ready for their tenants by the first of next month. The building will be wired for electric lights, and for an electric call system connecting each suite with the janitor's quarters. Five stops will be placed between the floors to prevent a repetition of last...
...final conclusion is that the three-year course would be bad for the students, because it would require them to divide their attention between too many subjects at one time, and to require them to spend a larger portion of their time in the class-room with less self-sustained work. To change from a four-year to a three-year course, without alteration in the amount of work, would be "bad for the reputation of the College, because it would set up a pretension that the Harvard A.B. had not been lowered by the change to a three-year...
...question to the issues, and too little on discussing the issues. This makes the audience feel that much is being said on irrelevant matters, before the sides come together. Mr. Ringwalt then suggests that a brief be submitted by each side to the other, feeling that the small portion of "surprise" thus lost would be more than balanced by the more scholarly discussion...
...University library will soon be increased by many new volumes, the purchase of which has been made possible by a gift of five hundred dollars from Mrs. E. C. Hammer of Boston. Last year Mrs. Hammer made to the University a gift of the same amount, and a portion of this was used, at her suggestion, to provide for a concert of Norwegian music. It has been thought best to devote the whole sum given this year to the purchase of books, in order that the gaps in the collection might the more speedily be filled. Works in Swedish literature...