Word: sections
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...have your letter asking my opinion regarding the Harvard Debating Council Plan for the Enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment. With much of it I find myself in accord, but I should be in grave fear lest section 4 lead to gross abuses. A "federal educational" bureau would become simply the organ of a prohibition party, and this clause might lead to the establishment of an endowed newspaper or some other experiment of more than dubious value...
...Editor's Note: Section 4 of the Debating Council Plan states: "There shall be federal education to foster and encourage temperance and abstinence...
...section meetings in English A-1 will be cut from three to one a week. In place of the omitted section meetings will be a bi-weekly conference of an hour in groups of four students and an instructor, a monthly lecture to the whole course on general questions of style and literature, and additional outside reading. As at present, there will be an hour and a mid-year examination in the first half-year, and students without conditions will be allowed to choose the style of writing they study for the second half...
...advantage of the tutorial method here is that while the weekly section meeting will provide for all necessary discussion of themes and lectures to the section as a whole, the conferences will be better able to take care of the more advanced work because each conference group will set its own pace. The advantage of a group of four over an individual conference lies in the interchange of ideas possible in such a group...
Biltmore originally covered 125,000 acres of North Carolina land, has been reduced by turning one section into a forest reservation, another into a village, to 11,500 acres. To house the 2,000 people employed on the estate, Paternalist Vanderbilt built a model village in the English Cheshire style, now a suburb of Asheville. Biltmore's first Chief Forester was Gifford Pinchot, later (1923-27) Governor of Pennsylvania. Here until his death in 1914 lived George Washington Vanderbilt, studying the dialects of the American Indian in his ornate library, helping his North Carolina tenants with their farming, issuing...