Word: portion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second plan, essentially a modification of the first, envisions a voluntary "House Honors" program for those non-Honors Seniors who nevertheless wish to continue some form of tutorial. The plan assumes that a large portion of non-Honors students, often with sound reasons, simply do not want to take up the burden of extended research in some narrow, particular field, but still do not desire the anonymity of large courses. These groups would be organized on a House basis, with certification of "House Honors" placed on the degree...
With a large portion of the squad simultaneously having an off-day, the varsity wrestling team dropped its second Ivy League meet Saturday, 14 to 11, to an improved Penn squad...
...Lincoln the homely gravity of the Mathew Brady photographs. His drawling voice begins like a modest rivulet picking its way over pebbles of country wit and wisdom, then swiftens into a stream of social inquiry and protest, and finally cascades in a thundering waterfall of conscience aroused: "A vast portion of the American people do not look upon slavery as a very little thing. They look upon it as a vast moral evil...
...three editors have tried to shape this mass into an orderly autobiography. The first version appeared in 1924, and by cutting out all seemingly offensive passages. Editor Albert Bigelow Paine tried to keep Mark Twain's reputation as spotless as his linen. In 1940 Bernard DeVoto published another portion of the manuscript. Now Charles Neider, novelist and essayist, gives what seems closest to the truth of the matter...
...only other portion of the library accessible to the casual visitor is a series of rooms displaying samples from Houghton's unmatched theater collection. "Playbills, posters, prints, photographs, pamphlets, broadsides, sheet music, letters, documents, clippings"--everything pertaining to the theater in any form fills the theater section of the Houghton stacks. Old poster and playbills of Kean and Booth, the playbill for the Ford theater on the night of Lincoln's assassination, are some notable examples. One piece, P.T. Barnum's first advertisement, tells of his original sideshow: "Joice Heth . . . born on the island of Madagascar on the coast...