Word: portions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since December, when the Council had received $7319.93, a number of donations to the fund were turned in, boosting the figure by $720, an unusually large return for so short a period. Subtracting the portion which goes to the Phillips Brooks House, there is now $4039.93 available for miscellaneous charities and class expenses. $1500 is the sum which has been voted to charities. The various small charities which are supported will be decided next week. From the remainder a considerable amount will go for the preparation of the class album, which is partially self-supporting. Photographs for the nominees...
Many of the usual charities to which parts of the Student Council Fund is sent will not receive a portion this year. In some cases the charities got shares of the $26,000 collected for distribution by the Students Council during the Dartmouth, Holy Cross, and Yale games. Other charities have been recipients of Cambridge City funds, and other large special donations...
...them are going on in Engineering, others not; all of them have a required number of engineering courses to take but still are burdened by the distribution requirements of the college. Under the reorganized plan the man who intends to make of engineering a vocation will get the major portion of his training in concentrated form in the Graduate School of Engineering. For the man who merely wants a bit of knowledge on the subject some of the present courses in Engineering Sciences can be retained in the college curriculum. These can be designed for men not going further...
Attempts at improvement wisely begin with the foundation rather than the superstructure, and this is true of a university where the foundation is laid in the undergraduate portion or college. If that is not sound, the graduate and professional schools are endangered. A revision of the instruction under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences began, therefore, with the college, and indeed with the freshman class. In 1902 there was strong and just criticism among teachers of the older academic subjects that in the large lecture courses for the lower classes the amount and thoroughness of the work required were...
...into souvenirs for sale. British lighter-than-aircraft enthusiasts mourned the R-101's end, which, they felt, would also sound the knell of the government-operated Cardington dirigible plant and throw many a skilled technician out of work. The U.S. Navy has offered to take over a portion of British airship personnel, keep it in training...