Word: portions
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...course of lectures which Professor Peabody is to begin tonight on the Ethics of the Social Questions. The study of ethics is growing to be one of great importance, and its application to social questions has become today a matter of serious consideration. Professor Peabody has spent a good portion of his year abroad in studying the question and inquiring into its character in European countries, Germany especially. Many of us may remember his interesting contributions on this subject to the Forum and other magazines of last year. From the title of his lectures he apparently intends to make...
...many in the University already know, a portion of the Soldiers Field has been prepared for secret practice of the eleven. A fence eight feet high on three sides, and twelve on the Cambridge side, has been built about a levelled space, large enough to allow a strip of ground fifteen feet wide outside of each boundery. Every crack and hole in the fence is to be filled, so that it will be impossible to see from without. The field will be marked out before Thursday when practice there will begin. Until late in the season however, the eleven will...
...portion of the new gymnasium which should bring the most envy to the soul of the long-suffering Harvard man is that which is devoted to the baths. When one hears of twenty-one shower baths, he looks with rueful comparison at the accommodations which the Hemenway gymnasium at present offers. Besides this, there are Turkish, Russian, and ordinary baths. These are nickel plated, put in at an expense of $500 each, and are provided with thermometers to regulate the temperature of the water. Adjoining these showers are sweating and rubbing rooms, and a circular, hot air drying room with...
...Messrs. Sandys and Anderson, (both illustrated by A. Hencke) the first, "Through Muskoka Maroel Lands," on one beautiful spot in Canada, and the second, "Nova Scotia as a Summer Resort," on another. Unfortunately each author is so positive that the place which he describes is the most beautiful portion of the continent, that anyone who is now in uncertainty will probably find his problem still harder to decide...
...believe in the harm worked by the present system of having the men hand in their own examination blue books from a circumstance which we had occasion to see at the mid-year examinations. It had come time to begin the examination and the blue books of a large portion of the class, fully twenty, could not be present. They had been mislaid and yet it was time for the examination to begin. If one of the students had not come to the rescue with a fresh supply of blue books, it would have been difficult...