Word: portion
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Mandolin Club is at present the most advanced of the three, and is fully up to its standard of last year. It has a large portion of old members, and is playing rather more difficult music than usual, with good success. The club is made up as follows...
...secondary schools originated as college preparatory schools. The college preparatory schools served, from the beginning, the educational needs of only a limited portion of the community, since their aims and scope of work were technical, designed to provide the necessary pre-collegiate training of clergymen. This technical character of the schools, in spite of the fact that the narrow curriculum comprised the elements of liberal culture as then understood, could not alone permanently hold the support of the community...
These papyri have been for a long time in the hands of English scholars of Oxford and Cambridge who have studied them thoroughly and have made careful translations. They find among the manuscripts many of Homer's writings, poems by Sappho, some of Emperor Hadrian's letters and a portion of St. John's Gospel. Although this last is not supposed to be the original writing, it is known that it far antedates any of the codices from which the English version is taken...
...Technical Instruction Committee of Manchester, England, has recently asked for the temporary loan of the "Educational Exhibit of the United States" which was shown at the Paris Exposition this summer. The University has already given its permission in regard to Harvard's portion, and in all probability the entire exhibit will be shipped directly from Paris to Manchester where, during the next month, it will be put on public exhibition. The Harvard exhibit will arrive in Cambridge about the middle of March...
...being put up to lay the foundations of the addition to the University Museum, which will connect the latter with the Peabody Museum. This new corner of the structure will be devoted to the needs of the Geological Department, which is now using crowded space in the other portion of the Museum...