Word: portion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...undergraduates will readily agree that their university is the best in the country; few, however, would describe their four years here as entirely satisfactory. To almost every undergraduate, a Harvard education presents inescapable problems: some solve them quickly and go on about their business, while others spend a large portion of their four years dissatisfied with the accepted methods of acquiring knowledge, and wondering where the education they have can best be put to use. It is with this situation that the 1961 Commencement Supplement is chiefly concerned...
Nobody knows what portion of parents are illiterate, for even the settlement house has difficulty reaching this group. The best many of the adults can do is pay lip service to middle class values, tell children not to grow up like their parents, and continue to live the roles of failed...
...Seven' countries would follow Britain and that an all-European economic union would hurt certain U.S. exports, particularly in the agricultural sector. But since the United States exports relatively little of its national product, an integrated European market could do nothing more than occasion the! readjustment of a minute portion of the American economy...
...High Sierra) need to be more seriously examined for the qualities that allow them to endure beyond their showings in the 'forties, and sporadic reincarnation on the Late Late Show; for I contend that they "touch immortality" in many ways that ought to be disconcerting to that portion of their audiences that grow increasingly precocious viewing the jucier parts of Virgin Spring or La Dolce Vita. Disconcerting in that they advocate immorality of the sort that even right-thinking undergrads (who allow it in thumbed copies of The Naked Lunch, and sublimate it in Down At The Dinghy) ought...
Philip Hofer, curator of printing and graphic arts at the Harvard College Library, has devoted the energies of a lifetime to making this exhibit possible. His contributions form a considerable portion of the collection, and you may thank him, as director of the exhibit, for the well-spaced, esthetic scheme of display employed...