Word: sectionalized
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...second floor will be devoted to offices, conference rooms and a section for high frequency and radio research work. The latter will be located near the Cruft Laboratory end. According to the contractor's specifications, the new building will have a volume of about 500,000 cubic feet and the walls of the library, lecture room, and corridors will be coated, with a special sound-absorbing, plaster, invented by Professor Sabine...
...Angeles district there are more women capable of playing championship golf than in any other section of the country. The U. S. Golf Association took full recognition of this fact in giving the women's national championship to the Los Angeles Country Club-a sharply trapped, rolling course with an annoying barranco and plenty of trees. The California women who had been paying their fares eastward year after year were to be given a chance at home. Nevertheless, impartial critics did not give them much chance against the little group of top-notch players from the East-National Champion...
...Harvard," declared, one essayist. "When these few get to Cambridge they spend most of their time fighting for 'dear old Alma Martyr, taking Physics and studying objects that can be described as 'completely globular in every dimension,' and reading scenes from Shakespeare's 'Twelfth-Knight'" ... or so the section men might be led to believe...
Between 1825 and 1850 discipline in Hanover reduced itself to a game between the faculty and the students. The former, acting as police, were ever on the watch to catch their pupils in the midst of their misdemeanors. Each instructor was assigned to guard a certain section of the town. Many of the "cops" even went so far as to disguise themselves in an attempt to trap unwary students. This method, proving unpopular as well as ineffective, was discarded in favor of a somewhat primitive "honor system", accompanied by a process known as "reading the catalogue". This meant going through...
Professors in large lecture courses are opposed to the hours, if only because of the complicated machinery involved; section men, if they insist, are easily able to test ability by one or a series of informal tests. The only excuse ever offered to conscientious objectors is the necessity to retain some disciplinary check on the student. In a university where even the faculty upholds liberalism to a point amounting almost to a fetish, where paternalism never rears its ugly head, and where a premium is placed on individual responsibility, the system of hour examinations is a paradox; a conflict between...