Word: section
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...advanced work in any language as part of the distribution scheme. Once admitted to Harvard, a student would continue with the study of a language presented for entrance, or with one for which he has had the requisite previous training. And instead of wasting good College time in childish section meetings, he would early be exposed to a first-rate literature course, of his own choosing as to language. There, even if the student resorts to trots and tutoring, he would at least be introduced to a masterpiece...
...Extremely Improbable." In the last six months big black headlines and long grey news columns have convinced a large section of the U. S. public that a five-power naval disarmament treaty would probably be signed in London, or at least that the President thought it probably would...
Thomas Midgley Jr., Dayton chemist, inventor of ethyl gasoline, placed a dish of a new refrigerant devised by him on a table before his section. Leaning low over the boiling dish he inhaled the white gas given off by the steaming liquid. Through a rubber tube he then blew the gas out of his lungs into a dish containing a burning candle, extinguished...
This, it seems to us, is the promising aspect of the poll. The twenty-five thousand young people participating represent presumably a fair cross-section of the intelligent, thoughtful and influential part of the public. It is from them and theirs that the leaders in this country will come hereafter. If their present opinion can be transformed later on into some sort of practical, concerted action, designed to bring about what is really best for the United States, then there may be hope ahead...
College prohibition polls have done what they set out to do, namely, get the college students' stand on prohibition. The results have added weight to the ever growing wet sentiment. This is less important than the fact that this expression came from a cross section of the country from whom those men who will act on either prohibition, or its successor, in the next generation, will be chosen...