Word: portion
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...fiction is not up to the standard of the more solid portion of the number. "The Tryst of the Princess Yvonne" is ambitious, but the ambition has not o'erleapt itself; indeed, it has fallen very short. The dramatic situations fall to stand up, and the ending of the tale leaves' the reader quite unmoved. The"Cupid in Yorkshire," by E. W. Huckel, is very much better, but might more properly have been entitled "The Precocious Child," for the powers of observation and reasoning displayed by the supposed narrator, are of a high order, and are properly recognized...
...past week a portion, at least, of the University squad has been on the river every day. The floats have not been placed yet nor have the launches appeared, but, except for the last two days, the tide has permitted an easy launching from the dock. Coaches Wray and Stevenson have supervised the rowing from their singles...
...CRIMSON has been taken to task for unnecessarily inflaming the undergraduates on the athletic situation. We have been informed that such appeals have little effect upon one portion of the University to which they have been addressed, namely the Faculty...
...former years the classes have responded far more readily to the dance and have enabled the committees by means of their support to make it a delightful affair. Whether or not the situation this year will be remedied by the disappearance of a somewhat blase attitude in a portion of the class remains to be seen...
...will compete in the Olympic games from America will go at the expense of the Olympic committee, will materially lessen the expense of sending a dual team abroad, as representatives of Harvard and Yale will undoubtedly be chosen to form part of the American team. A portion of the funds, moreover, which were collected for the last international contest are still unused, and this fact will be a potent influence in completing the arrangements...