Word: portions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Professor Beale described his own experience as a member of the Board of Aldermen in Cambridge and the difficulties he had experienced in comprehending the machinery of the city government. He urged all members of the University to devote at least a portion of their time to a study of the method by which the business of their own communities was done. Professor Lewis J. Johnson, who spoke next declared that while America had undoubtedly the best set of political ideals, it was only gradually that the machinery could be perfected for the fulfillment of those ideals. It is essential...
Last winter a serious attempt was made by certain churchmen in the University to require the compulsory attendance of Freshmen at Chapel for a portion of the year. It was believed that many men failed to attend chapel for no other reason than that they had never attempted to cultivate the habit. Although this attempt to secure some form of compulsory chapel was undoubtedly wisely defeated before it had much more than originated, the desirability of remedying conditions which annually cause many men to state that they have never been possessed of even sufficient curiosity to enter the chapel once...
With the completion of the Peabody Museum of Ethnology, the plans made by Professor Louis Agassiz for the University Museum forty years ago have been carried out. The addition was built at a cost of about $100,000, and a portion of it is already...
...rebuilding of the Gray Herbarium, which has been in progress for about five years, will soon be completed. But one section of the old building, the large central portion, remains in its original form. Through generous gifts from several patrons, funds are now available for the reconstruction of this section. The work on the Herbarium has consisted of remodeling and considerably enlarging the previous structure along the lines of modern fire-proof construction. Dr. Asa Gray bequeathed his valuable collection of botanical specimens on the condition that it be kept in a building free from danger of fire...
...restriction; it is definite, practicable, easily applied and unavoidable. It requires an amount of preparation, which tends to make the immigrant appreciate his privileges in being permitted to enter, and his duty toward the country. It restricts immigration in the most logical way--by barring the least desirable portion of the less useful races...