Word: portion
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Charles Eliot Norton's birthday, November 16, 1827, will be observed in the College Library today by placing on exhibition in the Treasure room a number of volumes selected from his library. In the spring of 1905 an arrangement was made with Professor Norton by which the more valuable portion of his library should pass into the possession of the College Library at his death. The exhibition today will be open to members of the University from 10 to 1 o'clock...
...best thing about the mass meeting last evening was that portion of it that took the form of an impromptu demonstration which followed the meeting in the Union in front of President Eliot's house. It is a novelty in Harvard College to have such demonstrations of esteem and admiration and for that reason it was all the more genuine. It was a case of taking advantage of our opportunity, and our opportunities are limited from now on. In this respect the President was alert as usual and seized the opportunity to talk freely about his resignation. The ever-present...
...shall be French works of or about literature, but that current fiction and drama and philological works shall be excluded. A number of rare and early editions of French authors have already been bought with the gift, and the balance will be spent in the same way, reserving a portion for a remarkable collection of works relating to Rousseau which has lately been offered for sale. Mrs. Dixey will give a book-plate to be inserted in the books...
...annual report of the Fogg Art Museum has been issued by the director, Professor Charles H. Moore. Many additions have been received, among them being a painting attributed to Benozzo Gozzoli, given by Mr. E. W. Forbes '95; a copy by John Ruskin of a portion of the picture by Paolo Veronese of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, given by Professor C. E. Norton; a water-color drawing by J. M. W. Turner, purchased out of the Prichard fund; seventeen lead pencil drawings by Turner purchased from $1000 given by Mr. James Loeb '88, and a marble bust portrait...
...last named collection came as a gift to the Medical School as a result of a visit paid by Dr. Chase to the Royal College of Surgeons in 1906. These prints number several hundred, and occupy the major portion of one end of the gallery of the museum. Among them are included likenesses of many of the famous physicians of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, besides many engravings of places associated with the history of medicine, such as the Middlesex Hospital, the Royal College of Surgeons, and Barber Surgeons Hall. Dr. Chase's and Dr. Young's collections...