Word: portions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Wachter has announced he will devote a considerable portion of his time to the Freshmen who elect sculling as their form of required exercise. In-experienced men are expected to report from 11 to 3 o'clock, since that time has been set aside for individual instruction to men reporting for the first time. From 3 to 5 o'clock in the afternoon. Coach Wachter will give his attention to the more experienced...
Three votes-were taken. By the first, cast by the full house at 8.30 o'clock the resolution "Resolved: That no individual should, under any circumstances, participate in war" was defeated 44 to 30; the second taken on the same resolution after a portion of the house had left, was a tie, 28 to 28; the third carried 29 to 13 to measure, "Resolved: That, in the opinion of this house, the Military Science Department of Harvard University should be abolished...
...elevator operators in the Senate office building have adapted themselves to the pastime. On reaching the third floor they call "Oil," and a portion of the public disembarks. At the fourth floor they call "Daugherty," and the rest leave the car. Not only the public, but members from both branches of Congress have taken up the fad. One morning last week, when it was time for the Senate to open, Senator Curtis, Republican Whip, was the only member on the floor. Call bells were rung, and after some 15 minutes a quorum was gathered, but not until many Senators...
...Newer Republic," the April issue of the Harvard Advocate, deserves an honored place in that portion of the Hall of Fame devoted to parodies. The Editors are to be congratulated. They have created a journal, if anything, more imposing than the original. The only fault to be found with this number is that occasionally the likeness is too painfully like. This is inevitable, I suppose, under the circumstances, and the Editors of the Advocate have made the best of a difficult situation...
...Excise taxes on monopolies, such as matches, spirits, tobacco. There is to be no Allied supervision of collection of these taxes. Evidently it is felt that the Germans cannot ignore the easiest method of taxation that lies at any Government's hand. The Allies will only take a portion, so that the incentive to collect will be left untouched...