Word: portions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edwin F. Atkins, A.M. '03, as donor of a recent gift of $62,000 to the Harvard Endowment Fund was received yesterday. It was also learned that Mr. Atkins had increased his contribution to the Fund to the total of $125,000, the largest individual gift to the Boston portion of the Fund. Of this $25,000 was given unrestricted, and $100,000 was given for tropical research in economic botany...
...allegation has now been made by the authorities that a letter written by the professor to the Reverend Mr. A. F. Hensey of the Bolenge Equatorial Mission in the African Congo was intercepted by the British and turned over to the U. S. Government. A portion of this letter which is reputed to have started the investigation follows...
From the outset of his Presidency at Harvard, in 1909, Lawrence Lowell set his face steadfastly against all this. While still allowing a considerable freedom of election, so that education remained adequately comprehensive, his method required the student to group and organize the major portion of his studies within a single field. It was a step toward the famous "honour schools" of the English universities, in which the student concentrates upon the classics, history, English language and literature, or any one of half a dozen general subjects. A similar step already had been taken in many American universities...