Word: portion
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...received in Cambridge Wednesday announced the safe arrival of Professor Alexander Agassiz director and curator of the University museum, in Liverpool. Professor Agassiz is on his way to Africa, where he intends to thoroughly explore most of the territory not entered by Stanley in his search for Livingstone. This portion of Africa, lying just south of the Sahara, and occupying, as it does, the central part of the continent offers the greatest difficulties to explorers...
...years ago two class-mates of mine "Out" for the Lampoon, used regularly to devote a portion of each day, rain or shine, to helping each other think up jokes. Apparently times have not changed, not the ways of candidates or editors in them. Yet jokes, like poets, are born, not made. Humor means, if anything, an irrepressible, sensitiveness to incongruities, and contradictions in things, unspirited, be it added, by any immediate desire to correct them. Its expression is a revelation to itself, a, sudden unexpected sparkle and flash refracted from some absurdity. College humor, moreover, should be provincial...
...benefit for both the mature and the growing members of the University, stand out quite uniquely. It is difficult to analyze the causes of this condition of affairs, but in the main we believe that both students and Faculty are to blame with a more or less considerable portion charged to the atmosphere of our highly academic University. This, we confess, is a much overworked and abused explanation, applied indiscriminately to University affairs in general...
...article appeared in yesterday's "Boston Globe which probably caused some indignation among those who read it. Very likely the writer does not express the real opinion of any but a small portion of Harvard men. But the sentiments which are voiced after every hard-fought Yale game are enough to justify him in his conclusions. "Isn't it about time for Harvard men to stop being satisfied with creditable defeat?" With this sentence the Globe writer introduces his arraignment of our attitude toward football. The accusation angers us at first; but how is the outsider to know how bitter...
Today and tomorrow the Juniors and Sophomores will elect their respective officers. In both cases such an occasion is one of vital importance, but the Juniors need to use even more circumspection than the Sophomores, for their officers will represent them through a considerable portion of the Senior year...