Word: sections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...progress of undergraduates in their fields, the phrasing and selection of questions will stand out as one of the most essential administrative tasks. That Harvard's examiners have sometimes slipped up in manufacturing their working tools is not to be questioned. The ambiguity of the Money and Banking section of the Junior Economics paper of last year is only a case in point...
...commemorate the anniversary last fall, a section has been given over to the Tercentenary. An historical sketch by Samuel Eliot Morison '07, professor of History and Tercentenary Historian, is inset with small cuts, from Harvard's past, followed by an account of the Tercentenary Days by John B. Bowditch '37, which is framed by bleed-off panels of scenes from the celebration...
There would be no problem, were the situation once fully comprehended, for if the teaching of specified sections of the first three mathematics courses were more static, a section structure including one section especially designed for direct application of the principles taught could be evolved. This sort of solution would necessitate a modification in the structure of the mathematics department which would not be wholly desirable...
...seems obvious that in a large University which represents a fairly good cross-section of every type of persons and ideals there can exist war-minded men and peace-minded men. The militarists will attract no such large gathering as the pacifists, as was proved by the small gathering of the Boston mass meeting in Fenway Park two days...
...only objection is that that notice was posted early in October, and although there are weekly assignments, no written announcements of them, in that particular section, have been made since. Almost all the English A instructors are regularly or occasionally remiss in nailing up these little sheets. The diligent scholar, to be sure, can always get the assignment in class. Since, however, the written announcements are prescribed, the intention of the course is clearly to provide for the day-dreamers and the hooky-players. A little closer attention to duty on the part of the instructors might inspire a like...