Word: section
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Section Leaders in the Wrong...
Anybody, student or section leader or member of the faculty perhaps regarding such matters with lofty disdain, who sees in "English A" no more than the writing and correcting of themes; only a year's more or less superfluous exercise in English composition which ought to have been disposed of in the preparatory schools, misses, it seems to me, the whole meaning and purpose of the course. Undoubtedly there are, and long have been, section leaders in the course itself who have thus misconstrued its significance, and so have led their students to regard it with contempt. That would account...
...conducted under the auspices of the Division of Music in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building. The program will be rendered by the American String Quartet assisted by Mr. Heinrich Gebhard, a pianist. The proceeds of this concert will be give to the Home Service Section of the Cambridge Chapter of the American Red Cross to aid disabled veterans of the World War who are residents of Cambridge...
...view of this situation, a committee of the American Bar Association, of which Mr. Elihu Root is the head, took the matter up for several months and in the summer of 1921 submitted a report to the Section of Legal Education of the American Bar Association. This report made several recommendations with reference to the character of law schools, aimed at discrediting night and correspondence schools, which from their very nature cannot require intensive study from the students. The committee also recommended to the legislatures and their bodies controlling admission to the bar in the several states, that no student...
...report was adopted by the section of legal education and in order to obtain further support for its propositions, the committee called a conference at Washington of a number of eminent practitioners and law examiners to consider additional requirements for admission to the bar. At this conference interesting speeches were made by a number of distinguished men and Mr. Root, in supporting the recommendations, made two forcible addresses. He argued that unless the American theory of legal education were entirely unfounded, the new suggestions would not only improve the legal education of young lawyers, but would also give a higher...