Word: portions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have already signified their intention of going, the geological field trip to the mountains of Colorado next summer is now assured. The party will leave Boston on the seventh or eighth day of July, and will start work in the southeastern portion of the mountains. Later, a trip will be taken through the higher mountains. Professor W. W. Atwood will be in charge, and there will be two additional assistants...
...more attractive if the magazines were kept up to date and accessible to readers. Recently I picked up four well-known magazines and found each a month or more out of date. Some covers with tempting titles were disappointingly vacant, other periodicals were there only in part, or a portion of a cover was the one sign that showed there had been something readable at a former date. A general appearance of carelessness about the filling of papers and magazines was evident. To members of the Union the Reading Room is a strong attraction. Many more would use if than...
...public, or a portion of it, finds it hard to rid itself of an idea once firmly imbedded. In spite of a rain of facts to the contrary, some persons still believe that our endowed universities are out of the reach of any but men of wealth. The writer of a letter to the Transcript, and the author of a tirade against the University, called "The Educational Octopus," makes the accusation that the "intellectuals of Harvard mistakenly believe that the son of the laboring man should not be allowed to aspire to equality, professionally or otherwise, with the young...
...that of preaching. As a moral and spiritual leader he is also set to be the personal friend of the men and women and children in his parish, to exercise, with a sort of affectionate disinterestedness, the functions of guide and counsellor in their individual lives. It is this portion of his work which gives him so wide and inclusive a contact with his generation. And it tends to make him what all great ministers have been, a supreme humanist; a man, that is, who finds the rewards of life not in material possessions, but in the ever more wide...
...Francis Peabody '80, who seems to dive to the very bottom of the turbulent sea of crew-coaching troubles. He comes up smiling with this pearl: "We may reasonably expect that Harvard will, under these new coaches, win her fair share of the races with Yale, a much larger portion than heretofore of the races with Cornell, and also win from such other colleges as she may row against in the future." Bon voyage to the crews of Coach Herrick...