Word: portion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This will apply to men like Dr. MacMillan and Captain Amundsen, as a result of whose explorations a question may arise as to sovereignty over newly explored territory which they may discover in the northern portion of Canada. We claim all that portion discovered or undiscovered...
...from obstacles in the line of vision, and there fore failing to take into account a part of the factors in the problem. Such near-sightedness, or defective vision, is due partly to our ignorance in large part unavoidable because we know, and can know, only a small portion of the influite compass of eternal truth. If is partly due also to the narrowness of our sympathies' which prevents us from comprehending the sentiments and point of view of others, who are quite as sincere, intelligent and well informed as ourselves, perhaps familiar with aspects of the matter we know...
During that delightful period which extends from the Last Examination to Class Day, the thoughts of the average overworked undergraduate turn toward his late instructors even less than they did during the earlier portion of the college year. His mental picture of his recent guides and philosophers and historians, assuming that he has one, displays them proceeding unanimously toward the Widener Library, preparing to spend a pleasant and profitable summer in the stacks...
...This portion of the list contains the names of a number of Seniors in other colleges who were awarded scholarships for graduate study at the University. In addition there are the names of instructors in the college and students in the graduate schools who have received awards. The list also contains certain scholarships granted by the Medical School and the Bussey institution...
...letter, openly informing classmates of this conspiracy, was sent out and the portion I have quoted regarding the conspiracy brought to your attention several weeks prior to your reply in The Times of May 26 to Mr. Martin. Yet by that reply all who will join in such a conspiracy are advised that the university will do nothing to stop their lawbreaking, when you say: 'The reunion classes hold their own dinners and conduct them as seems to them best.' Such deliberate lawbreakers are even welcomed back to Yale by the last paragraph of your letter, which reads: 'With this...