Word: portion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that our ancestors in their college days were mature and solemn men. Sartorial fashions, no doubt, contribute to the effect; but a record of student ages half a century ago would probably show an average of at least a year more than the prevailing number now'. Yet a large portion of President Lowell's annual report is devoted to an appeal for students to enter college at an even tenderer age than is now common...
...Episcopal Theological School today opens a campaign for $1,000,000 for: Increase of salaries and pensions, fellowships and scholarships, four new faculty houses, and building repairs and maintenance. Bishop William Lawrence '71, previous to this formal opening has collected a considerable portion of the quota to give the campaign a start. He says of the campaign, "The School in Cambridge is in cooperation with all the theological schools of the Church; In competition with none. This campaign is far broader than the School itself. Its progress and results will affect every man; woman and child in the Church...
Much of the material shown is from the Robert Gould Shaw and the Evert Wendell Collections which are the property of the Library. The greater portion, however, is from the collection of the late Ernest L. Gay '97, who for years collected everything connected with the "Beggars' Opera" or with its author, John Gay. This collection is on deposit at the College Library. Only those parts of it which are of more public interest have been selected to go on exhibition...
Your recent editorial on the distribution of football game tickets is certainly to be commended, especially that portion which demanded a definite and predicable policy to be adopted...
...other numbers of her program not because of consistently bad singing of them as because of blotches, occasional hard topes which grated on the ear. It is to be regretted that singers like Miss Braslau whose good taste would naturally shun such things are forced by a certain portion of their audience to sing such worthless pieces of sentimentality as May Brahe's "I Passed by Your Window...