Word: portion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...February number of the Advocate contains a fair portion of thoughtful and entertaining writing. The pages to which most readers at Harvard will first turn are those devoted to Mr. Donald Gibbs' "Sawdust Trails in the College"--a kind of "apologia", it may be conjectured, for a recent remark which attained a wider currency than its author intended. Mr. Gibbs' subject is the 'student conference' which too often reaches, in the name of a free discussion of educational problems, no higher result than the training up of the student delegates who attend toward a "future of fair Rotarian godliness...
...your questions last night and was on to all but two (2). The one on Judith I lost entirely, probably because I never made much of a study of that portion of the Book. The other was on why do the people object to the carillon* and I still think I was some way right on it. My answer was, "because they are not spiritual enough to desire the kind of music we usually get from that class of instrument." And don't you think if they were in harmony with those things they would be glad to have...
Communion. After bread and wine are blessed, a small portion of each may be "reserved" to give communion to the sick or dying. Under no circumstances may the bread be ostentatiously displayed, as in Roman Catholic churches, nor may it be adored as the body of Christ by kneeling devotees...
...substantially correct, but your reference to "Jellybeans" is all wrong, and especially your explanation in the note. You define a jellybean as a heap this "Southern small opprobrium town upon the loafer." Why heap this opprobrium upon the South? We are as loyal to your publication as any portion of the country. Then again, why refer to a jellybean as a loafer? A jellybean is not necessarily a loafer, although he may be one. A jellybean is just another name for a cookie-pusher. Members of this species may and very often do work, and could not be classed...
...Beta Kappa key, he talked with students. He quoted figures to show that in 1916, 12.3 per million population died of cirrhosis of the liver, while in 1921 only 7.4 per million were victims of that disease. He was given a few minutes in religion courses, and allowed a portion of the chapel time. He then demanded that a snap-vote be taken. Sixty two voted in favor of strict enforcement, 39 for modification, 20 for repeal. He entered Upsala in the prohibition column of his notebook and went on to a nearby college...