Word: portions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...filibuster against civil rights legislation in prospect, Oregon's cantankerous Democratic Senator Wayne Morse announced that he may stage a one-man talkathon of his own against the Administration's $4.5 billion foreign aid request. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara also was grilled warmly on the military-assistance portion of this request by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Arkansas Democrat J. William Fulbright joined Morse in charging that some European nations are not adequately sharing the costs of their own defense...
...think Harry Truman will go down in history as one of the greater Presidents."Off to the airport soon afterward, Barry flew his Bonanza to a commencement address at the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell. This time the subject was again patriotism and conservatism, with a generous portion of praise for an old Democrat named Thomas Jefferson...
...spirit of the earliest Commencement days, as of the early College, was largely chaparoned by theology--the presence of a formidable portion of the local clergy caused those first occasions to be rather pious and somber. But the joyous aspects of graduation increased steadily and by the end of the seventeenth century, commencement had become the main spectacle of the New England...
Administratively, the Gen Ed program has gone out of joint as a result of non-departmental programs which have impinged upon its authority and functions. The sophomore standing program now permits ten percent of each entering class to skip the freshman year and, incidentally, to dispense with a large portion of the Gen Ed requirement. The Advanced Standing program, which this year involved 40 per cent of the freshman class, weakens Gen Ed still more by giving students college credit for subjects outside their field of concentration. The Freshman Seminar program, in which more than one-fourth of this year...
...punches, mostly from the 16th century), but also with more than 18,000 drawings, woodcuts and copperplate engravings used for illustrations. Though it is the best collection of its kind, it has been shown outside Antwerp only twice-in Belgrade and Paris' Bibliotheque Nationale. Last week a generous portion of the collection was on view at Dartmouth College in the hills of Hanover, N.H. Some rare and old items: a Spanish manuscript of a medical treatise by Andreas Vesalius and Juan Valverda, ten title pages designed by Peter Paul Rubens, and such fastidious examples of the illustrator...