Word: portions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Undergraduates who wish to write a dissertation in Greek may band in a translation of a part of Acton's "History of Freedom" into Attic Greek and for those writing in Latin a translation into that language of a portion of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" is required. A prize of $50 for the best of each of these translations will be awarded. Holders of degrees must write an original essay in either Latin or Greek on any subject chosen by the competitor. The best essay will receive...
...opens a field for discussion. It is fair to say that up to this time the proposed cessation of upper-class course meetings has been looked upon by the majority of students with more or less optimistic, and unknowing, docility. Now, however, when professors and instructors are beginning to portion out generous assignments of reading and to utter vague hints concerning the ultimate examination on that reading, the three weeks following the Christmas Holidays assume a more severe and on the whole a more normal aspect. As has been said before, and as will be said until experience has proved...
Whether or not New York City between Times Square and the Grand Central will lend itself readily to being dug up for such a worthy cause, the statistics offered in the case can do nothing but good. While it might be difficult for each waiting pedestrian to recognize which portion of the 100,000 days is his contribution, he can still be comforted that he is doing his part to make pedestrians into a leisure class. There should be comfort in the thought for the opportunity to have 100,000 days a year to waste is not one that falls...
...Story: But for the neck, the weakest portion of the spine is the small-of-the-back. Old-time office chairs strain the spinal column. Armless revolving chairs pinch the back of the legs where the arteries come to the surface above the knee. This eventuates a cramped sensation. As remedy, the Sikes Chair Co. of Philadelphia has provided a posture chair. Since 1922 experiments had been conducted with the result that in 1927 came the "Perfect Posture Chair," the seat being shallower (13 in. instead of the usual 18 in.) and slightly tilted back-so that the sitter...
Probably the most famous passage, and one which takes up a very large portion of the whole story, is the description of the dinner party given by Trimalchio, the incredibly wealthy and entirely credibly regular parvenu, an entertainment which is a veritable miracle of extravagant bad taste, which even Mr. Cecil de Mille would find difficult to rival. This the rest from the editing of the over cantious publisher, but the subsequent omission of the chapters $6 and $2 complete is hardly an act which will recommend it self to the judicious and exacting reader. To be sure, these passages...