Word: portions
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...number of years requisite for retirement, withdraw his individual fund at the same time. And at the death of a fund-holder his accumulated share is to be paid to his family or other persons designated in his will. The Corporation, therefore, so far from depriving professors of a portion of their salaries, is in reality increasing them by five per cent and providing besides a competency for their families. The plan is certainly a commendable one, and will no doubt, with the proper limitation, be acceptable to those whom it most concerns...
...opportunity seems now to be offered for providing an excellent building for the collections of pictures, casts, models, &c., which the College should have. These collections cannot be obtained, and funds for providing them will not be established, until there is a suitable building for their reception. A portion of the same building might be reserved for collections illustrative of other courses of study...
...angles of the running track in the Gymnasium are so sharp that it will probably be necessary to walk over a portion of it. It is thought that the time made on this track will be seriously affected in consequence...
...portion of the President's Report relating to scholarships has been republished in separate form, and will be distributed among those who have been misled by Mr. Higginson's logic...
...great part of the paper then presented is, I think, open to criticism as involving distinctions too minute to be of any moment, but the portion relating to Composition calls for especial comment Composition is not embraced in the course, and its presence on the examination-paper caused very great surprise. True, the sentences given were translations from the author read, but their selection was purely arbitrary, and to expect one to load the memory with even a quarter of the innumerable idiomatic constructions in Plautus were an evident absurdity. Is it not, too, a somewhat novel idea that...