Word: portion
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...schools, missions, and medical institutions under the charge of the American Board, and to study their methods and the progress they have made during the last few years. As there is an enormous amount of territory to be traveled over, each member of the committee will take a certain portion as his share. Professor Moore will probably make the long and hard horseback journey to the northern parts of the country...
Those of us who used to study only the facts of history, Secretary Shaw said, to the neglect of the logic of history have missed the most important as well as the most interesting portion The number of battles in a given war, their dates and the officers commanding are non-essential, but the causes and the unexpected results of the war are of prime interest. No man planned the great republic as it is today, nor even anticipated the present condition of the states. Nothing was ever further from the present homogeneous republic than the thirteen original colonies, differing...
...Shaw emphasized at length the huge size of our national wealth, and the commanding position among the nations of the world which is ours to honor and protect. Our opportunities are unsurpassed to secure a fair portion of the commerce of South America and South Africa. The Isthmian Canal will be an important factor in securing our full share. But we must have a merchant marine to supplement the navy of which we are justly proud...
...wall and about the same length of earth embankment. The Commission will soon receive bids for the work on section two, which is located back of Beacon street. Along the wall, south of the Cambridge bridge, the esplanade will vary in width from 180 to 300 feet, and the portion in the rear of Beacon street will be 100 feet wide. It will be made of excavations from the basin, hold in place by concrete masoury, retaining walls, faced with ashlar masonry on piles. The continuation of the Boston marginal conduit will be built in this fill...
...previously announced, in economics and political science. Any student in the University who will be next year a member of the Senior class or of the Graduate School is eligible. The scholarship yields an income of three hundred and fifty dollars, and the incumbent must devote the major portion of his time to economic and political studies...