Word: portions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue arose after the Yale Daily News ran an editorial urging consideration of the plan because "there is an increasingly large portion of students whose literacy is directly dependent on the presence of typewriter keys...
...Form 1040. We have come to dedicate a large portion of our income to a final resting place with those men who here spend their lives that they may spend our money. It is altogether anguish and torture that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot evade, we cannot cheat, we cannot underestimate this tax. The collectors, clever and sly, who compute here, have gone far beyond our poor power to add and subtract...
...moving piece of music, then, superbly performed. However, its worth cannot be grasped immediately, and one example of its many novelties will suffice to explain why. Described in a portion of the 1948 preface which Mr. Tucker did not read is Hindemith's use of tonalities, instead of themes, as lietmotivs. Thus, the key of B represents Mary, while E symbolizes Christ. This, certainly not evident at first hearing, is just another indication that Das Marienlaben--despite its immediate impressiveness--must be heard many times before it can be fully appreciated...
...financial question, however, was answered even before the final portion of the Bender Report had gone through the Faculty, partly through some budgetry juggling by Provost Buck but mostly through a timely grant from the Corporation. Reaching into its closely hoarded supply of unrestricted funds, the Corporation came up with one million dollars from the Allston Burr bequest, a gift better known in connection with Varsity Clubs. Not only is this ". . . support . . . encouraging," as Provost Buck put it, "to those of us concerned with maintaining the educational standards of Harvard College," but it proves anew the Corporation's flair...
...question of authority has also been settled. On February 12 the Faculty solved it by passing the final portion of the Bender Plan--the Gilmore Report--which stated among other points that "Senior Tutuors . . . shall be considered to have special responsibility for working out, with the departments, the organization of tutorial for sophomores on a residential basis" and added by way of explanation that while the departments would have the final word on junior tutorial, co-operation would be expected to continue...