Word: portion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Administration, emphasized all these points in a formal statement beginning the Federal Aid discussion. The other main speaker in this part of the meeting was Harvey Brooks, dean of engineering on the dangers of powerful government pressures in such areas as loyalty checks, should Washington control a large enough portion of the University's budget...
...CRIMSON strongly favored the system of Proportional Representation which for twenty years has given Cambridge truly representative government. It also asserted that, while the CCA has definitely been a force for good government in the city, until recently that organization has reflected the interests of only a narrow portion of Cambridge's population--notably the residents of West Cambridge...
...painting of three eels on a table. Picasso did it last year just after Jacqueline had cooked some eels for his lunch. On the back he wrote: "Homage to Jacqueline for a matelote that she prepared for lunch 3.12.60. offering to her through this painting a small portion of the immense desire I have to please...
...southern portion of the country I understand suffers the poverty of southern Italy or Greece--perhaps worse. Not so the North which appears to be at about the same economic level as most of Austria. Buildings are in good repair, people are reasonably well dressed, and cities are quite crowded with automobiles. Strangely enough, the only poverty I noticed was in one of Ljubljana's best visited tourist attractions, the large castle on a bluff in the middle of town from which the city was defended against Turkish invasions from the 13th to the 17th century...
...that Mr. Jencks, the scourge of the faculty, is like nothing so much as a faculty member in his view of academic finances. This is particularly clear in his notion of what should be done with unrestricted funds. He believes that the Administration should feel "obligated to contribute a portion of tuition" to financial aid no matter what other funds may be available. This is exactly what every endowed department believes. (I wonder if Mr. Jencks will some day be a professor of Music or Chemistry--to speak only of the best-endowed and the most amiably greedy...