Word: portion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...various Boards at Washington are the center of all important appeals. Railroad owners, labor leaders, and reformers -- all take their disputed requests and schemes to the White House. The Interstate Commerce Commission occupies a building of considerable size and employs a veritable army of clerks. A large portion of the most important powers formerly exercised by Congress is delegated now to Boards, "Senatorial Oligarchy" has become a thing of the past...
...three-hour paper, in three one-hour sections--essay, non-departmental and departmental. Vigorous representations form both professors and students, that sufficient time was not allowed to enable the candidates to do themselves justice on the departmental section, convinced the examiners that two hours should be allotted to that portion of the examinatin. They were thus confronted with the alternative of holding a single four-hour examination, or of splitting it into two two-hour parts; and they chose the latter course in the belief that it would be more generally acceptable to the students. As the two parts were...
Indications are that probably only twenty-five percent of the Freshmen really need Senior sponsors,--namely, that portion coming from non-eastern preparatory schools. The Faculty has decided, however, that some good can be achieved by the system and that it should be given another trial. The purpose of the plan is to encourage and aid the Freshman to make himself a part of the University, and accordingly applies mainly to those who come to Harvard uninformed as to the activities in college life. The committee will make it a point to start the work of the advisers early next...
...chosen from among E. O. Gourdin '21, C. B. S. Evans '22 and R. D. Howard '23, all outstanding sprinters on the University squad, Gourdin being the present national junior 100-yard champion. Coach Bingham will undoubtedly use Captain D. F. O'Connell '21 for the half-mile anchor portion of the relay, although J. A. McCarthy '22 or H. G. Davis '21 may be pressed into service for this event. Richard Chute '22, Bayard Wharton '22, E. T. Doherty '22, A. H. Gordon '23 and J. W. Quinn '23 make up the wealth of material from which Coach Bingham...
...given to a person who is a member of Harvard University in 1920-21. The incumbent must be a Senior in the College or in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and must carry on his studies under the department of Economics. He must devote the major portion of his time to economic and political studies and must give special attention to the problems involved in the relation of the State to industrial enterprise...