Word: section
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Exeter College, Oxford in the "Nineteenth Century", "as freshmen at my College rather two English secondary school boys than four Colonials or fourteen Americans. . . ." Review" asks of a defender of the Americans, "His it ever occurred to his that with the control over the Union, their influence over a section of the Press and their secondary in the social clubs, the Americans will soon assimilate Oxford?' while another remarks that "Instead of a culture peculiarly English, Oxford" (with the admission of Americans unlimited) "will develop into the cosmopolitanism characteristic of the transatlantic liner...
...Boston section of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and the Affiliated Technical Societies of Boston, have accepted invitations to attend. Those representatives of the Western Electric Company and of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company who are now in Boston or its vicinity, will also be present. The Crupt high tension laboratories and the electrical laboratories in Pierce will be open after the lecture for inspection by the guests...
...this the hard-worked Office is not entirely to blame. A major part of the fault lies with the individual section man, assistant, and instructor. He is the one who gives the marks upon which the Administrative department must take action, and all to frequently he is either careless or indifferent in cases that demand individual consideration. Sometimes it is an over-wrought sense of dignity that causes the trouble, sometimes the fallacious theory that every undergraduate delights in trying to "put one over on him"-and at all times there is a sad lack of that kindly humanity appreciated...
...with that triumph, hockey was forced to be content until now. University teams continued winning with great regularity, but the games, always in a non-Harvard rink, came to be regarded more as a spectacle than as a college activity to be supported. There was no cheering section and the seats in the Arena or at the old Ice-Pavilion were usually filled for the most part by individuals who came to watch with equal interest the professional fancy skater, the University hockey team play the Pere Marquettes and to whistle when the band played "Yoo-hoo" between periods...
...that is changed by yesterday's announcement from the Athletic Association of the sale of season tickets for hockey; forming an organized cheering section, and,--what touches the undergraduate even more closely,--reducing the cost of admission by this means to about a third the cost of former years. Hockey has made itself an integral part of the University's athletic life and this action on the part of the Athletic Association insures the team the recognition which...