Word: section
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock the auditorium was nearly filled, although the platform was still deserted. The seats on the main floor were completely filled by the officers of the university, the chosen representatives of the student body, and the officers of Harvard Clubs throughout the country. In the central section of the balcony were seated the family of President Eliot, and to right and left around the gallery were ranged prominent alumni of the University. The second balcony as well as nearly filled when, at ten minutes past three, the doors were thrown open to the public and a crowd of students...
Professor E. W. Forbes '95, Director of the Fogg Art Museum, has expressed an enthusiastic opinion of the portrait of President Eliot by Charles Hopkinson, nephew of the feted nonagenarian. This canvass, a reproduction of which appears on the front page of the CRIMSON Pictorial Section this morning, will be presented today to the University by the students in all departments...
...Charles Alexander Nelson '60, for 50 years head of the Reference Section of the Columbia University Library, and at present the librarian of the Merchants' Association of New York, has prepared an adaptation of Horace, for the occasion of President Eliot's birthday celebration. The poem follows...
...history of science is becoming a science in itself. Many great scholars are nowadays devoting their main interest to it. There are chairs in this field at several leading universities. Section L of the American Association for the Advancement of Science is set apart for science historians...
...basis of tuition fees as fifty cents, four dollars and five cents must come as a shock. An added hour of sleep is certainly worth fifty cents, but at eight times that amount its desirability becomes questionable. And it would seem that once the pecuniary value of lectures and section meetings has become fairly fixed in the undergraduate mind the entire machinery of "cut pro" might be discarded as unnecessary. Modern man, says Adam Smith, is essentially economic; and he undoubtedly included college students in that category. All that is necessary to make the economic man act is to indicate...