Word: portions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little-known and rarely-tested portion of the world's culture will form the subject of an illustrated lecture on "Indian Architecture and Sculpture," by Dr. J. H. Cousins of Madras, India. The talk will be held on Thursday evening at 8 o'clock in the Lecture Hall of the Fogg Art Museum, and will be open to the public...
Correspondents with nothing to write about sensationally described as "The Stamp Report" a memorandum in which Sir Josiah Stamp suggested to the Committee that it might be possible to work along the following line: 1) determine how much Germany ought to pay; 2) decide what portion of this amount Germany must pay; 3) investigate and establish the degree of German capacity to pay the rest...
...quiet town to a cosmopolitan university within eight minutes of the center of an urban population of some two million souls. Harvard life has become diversified and shot through with every sort of human interest and divergent aim so that an individual student can see only a small portion of it all. He cannot see the woods for the trees. Life is very much rushed, very confusing, and it is very difficult to maintain the necessary cohesion...
...dormitories or houses where he can find a lodging to suit his taste and his purse. He takes no interest in his room because he feels that he will presently leave it. He is an irresponsible boarder as far as the dormitory is concerned. A certain portion of the students, perhaps ten or fifteen per cent., are members of small social clubs...
Alteration of the Union to form a Freshman commons could be accomplished only at great expense, and the construction of another of those annexes whose aesthetic quality is so generally questionable; and, when this new portion has been built, the Freshman commons will not, under any conditions of dwelling, be centralized. Even Memorial Hall is less distant from the Yard dormitories than the Union and still Memorial's poor position is one of the arguments for constructing an entirely new dining hall. The influx of eight hundred Freshmen to the Union three times a day would tend, even without...