Word: portion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exception is well taken. But the crucial point is indicated by his statement that, "In 1960-61 we were able to meet our commitments with-out support from Faculty income." Apparently, ever the entire preceding decade that Administration had developed no sense that it was obligated to contribute a portion of tuition to supporting those less able to pay. As soon as someone contributed funds to the Program's financial aid allotment, the Administration withdraw the money it had been giving. This was what Mr. Bender said, it was what I quoted, and it certainly sounds selfish...
...devoted the major and final portion of his report to an eloquent attack on the "top-one-per-cent" policy--an attempt to admit only students who would stand, academically, in the upper one per cent of the country's undergraduates...
...private Buckley Schools, which stress self-discipline and no-nonsense learning. In the eleventh grade, he got an A average in science-rich studies, eased to a high B (and honors in Russian) in his senior year. He scored high on College Board aptitude tests: 634 on the verbal portion, 711 on the math portion (out of a possible 800). This summer he gobbled science fiction even at meals ("I couldn't fight it," says his mother), downed books on existentialism, extrasensory perception and Zen Buddhism. He also got hooked on jazz and played daily sand-lot baseball...
...proposed construction site is an existing group of houses beyond the stadium on North Harvard St. The promoter is Judge John C. Pappas, who, along with his brothers, owns Suffolk Downs and controls a large portion of the wholesale produce imports to the Boston area...
Noting that a substantial portion of the students enrolled in the GSE are women, President Bunting explained, "By turning over to the School of Education a building explained, "By turning over to the School of Education a building in the Radcliffe Yard, we further the education of women at Harvard, which has always been Radcliffe's basic...