Word: portions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that you can do is to print an apology for your article of Oct. 22 and tell your readers what has actually been the career of Dr. Faunce at Brown. He came to the university at the close of a bitter controversy over his predecessor which rendered a large portion of the alumni hostile to the new president. Because of his tact, honesty, and faith in the university, the breach was quickly healed. A natural reserve made it difficult for Dr. Faunce at first to enter into the life of the undergraduates, but this defect soon dwindled away because...
Friends of Novelist Bennett extended to him their sympathy, upon learning that in Britannia's make-up room the entire concluding portion of his article (containing the "cure" for "Pernicious Politicians") was inadvertently cut out, omitted, lost...
Besides this drill a portion of the session was devoted to skeleton drill on long forward passes. A backfield composed of E. T. Putnam '30, S. I. Batchelder '31, T. W. Gilligan '31, and David Guarnaccia '29 with S. C. Burns '29 and F. A. Pickard '29 at ends lossed long passes with another backfield as opposition. Guarnaccia did most of the heaving and showed a noticeable improvement in the matter of accuracy over his earlier work...
...most endearing of Harvard customs is the periodic discovery, by some active-minded undergraduate, that some department of some portion of the faculty is throwing its weight about a little too promiscuously--and the prompt announcement of the discovery in print. I am profoundly ignorant of the situation exposed by Mr. Breaksbread and Mr. Marlow, and quite unable to pass judgment on their exposition. Certainly, their poem is amusing and their gay malice irresistible. An editorial suggests some hesitation, on the part of the board. None, it seems to me, is called for. The production justifies itself; it voices...
...very happy," replied Edward of Wales, "to see such progress and prosperity in so remote a portion of the realm of His Majesty my father...