Word: section
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Individual departments, for instance, often hire students to do typing and research. Math, Physics, and Gen Ed courses offer many positions for student graders to relieve some of the pressure from busy professors and section men. Lab assistants are needed in most of the science courses. At the Observatory a small group of students--some under Government contract--does computing. "Animal men" are used in the biology and Psycho-Acoustic labs for the care and feeding of laboratory animals, while others are employed as electronics technicians to build and maintain amplifiers and other equipment...
...dubious section 31, it is well known that few University officials frequent the stadium on Saturday afternoons, and often players do not make use of all the seats available to them. Yet these seats are filled throughout the season. Even the Student Council senses that "these tickets are used by groups other than those listed...
...next Monday's session the Council would do well to investigate section 31 further, as well as to pass a demand for a more equitable seating arrangement...
Although Ernest Bloch's Concerto Grosso for Strings and Piano Obbligato is a modern masterwork, it showed off the Orchestra's weakest section, the strings, and the performance was uneven. Bloch's incisive rhythms give the work an excitement and a tension that make it a perfect piece to try out on people who "don't like modern music." The final fugue, especially, builds and builds until only the most blase listener can remain unmoved...
...throughout the Symphony, and some of the brass writing is unsurpassed anywhere. The first movement is a highpoint in modern music, with widely contrasting themes of great drive and of great beauty. The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, despite some fine playing in this work, will have to improve its string section before it can give a completely successful concert...