Word: portion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When John U. Monro leaves University Hall in July, he will not simply be closing out a whole portion of his life...
...America has simply too great a wealth of human resources to justify a procedure based on the premise that a loss of some portion of its students would be catastrophic. The other argument--that people in college deserve to be there--is beside the point. In no sense is it moral to use the draft to separate those who are too precious to be sent to war from those considered acceptable cannon fodder. Of course, there are times when a nation must ignore moral principles and worry about self-preservation. Now is not such a time. Because of its clear...
...Institute, however, this seems to avoid a central issue. A substantial portion of the Harvard community simply desires to confront policy-oriented problems. Many feel that the intellectual challenge of confronting issues in this realm is every bit as stimulating as devoting time to pure scholarship. Besides, there are few, if any, members of the Institute who plan to divorce themselves from pure scholarship--they merely want to vary their activities to achieve the maximum intellectual satisfaction...
...petitioner was Western Pacific Railroad, one of three railroads (the others: the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and the Denver & Rio Grande Western) that operate the Zephyr's 2,500-mile-long trip between Chicago and San Francisco. In turning down Western Pacific's request to discontinue its portion of the run-from Salt Lake City to San Francisco and back-the ICC cited assets that have long enchanted Zephyr passengers...
...students from New England and the Middle Atlantic states has shrunk from 75 per cent to 50 per cent. But at the same time there have been moves away from liberalization. In 1932, 20.8 per cent of the student body received financial aid from the college. Today, the portion of the students receiving financial aid has increased by only less than one per cent, although the average size of the financial "gift" has increased substantially more than the rise in tuition. This would indicate that the economic composition of Wellesley has changed little since 1936. The contention is supported...