Word: section
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...introductory course in mathematics is probably the easiest way of meeting an outstanding distribution requirement. Students gather for this purpose three times a week in nightly seminars, where the daily work, which is the major determinant of the grades in the course, is done to the satisfaction of Oriental section-men. Most of the students not concentrating in the department have a complete file of the corrected problems worked out by less fortunate undergraduates of the previous year...
Born of mountaineer stock at Breeding, Ky., lanky, humorous "Mel" Traylor also went west, to a two-fisted section of Texas, where he clerked by day, studied law at night and in 1909 became president of the First National Bank of Ballinger...
...Tunney's reputation for reading Shakespeare and hob nobbing with George Bernard Shaw, than in Retired Champion Tunney's undoubted knowledge of the fight game and the appropriateness of having a boxer write on Boxing. Whether or not they would have asked William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey to write the section if Dempsey had knocked out Tunney when last they met, the editors do not say. But from their choices of new authors in other fields, it seems safe to say that the policy throughout was: "The name-of-the-moment, come what...
...Sculpture, drawing, painting and other arts have a how-to-do section with each...
Having reflected on your criticisms and those of others also, I have made extensive alterations in the plans for conducting the course. These apply to the method of grading not only, but also to the choice of reading and the method of conducting section meetings. I have also made some changes in the subjects and arrangement of the lectures. If you are planning to issue a guide to courses this Fall or other systematic comment on the instruction offered by the University, 1 should appreciate an opportunity to explain these proposed changes more in detail to a member of your...