Word: section
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This is all a step in the right direction," said Elliott Perkins '23, master of Lowell House. Although he praised Winthrop's new section in Economics 1, Master Perkins foresaw no such meetings in Lowell because of a lack of space. "It's a question of logistics. When we get the new Houses, then we will be able to make room in Lowell for such sections...
Lubell's "impressionistic" technique of predicting how the U.S. will vote and why rests on interviews with only 3,500 to 4,000 families in each campaign. But he believes that his method is better than public-opinion polls. The pollsters try to get a census cross section in taking their samplings-a method that Lubell regards as rigid and superficial. Instead, Lubell goes on the theory that people vote according to group interests, sectional, economic, ethnic, religious. He charts and studies election returns in every U.S. county and most big-city precincts, as far back as the last...
...personal, informal, carnival atmosphere." Frequently screened from the sight, sound and smell of traffic, their malls and walkways are bright with flowers, fountains, tropical birds. At Southdale the 82-acre shopping zone is insulated from suburban Minneapolis by a 240-acre office belt and a 176-acre lakefront residential section. Like Detroit's fabulously successful Northland center (first-year gross: $88 million), a number of the new projects are decked with sculpture and mosaics...
Master Ferry proposed to shift "at least some" of the College's intellectual life into the Houses, starting in Winthrop with an Economics 1 section this term and planning sections in other courses next year. The intrahouse sections, Ferry believes, will place students and faculty on a more intimate and informal footing. The arrangement should also encourage students to discuss course material informally, outside the classroom. The result should be a House with a more friendly and interesting atmosphere...
...State has suggested two routes, both of which would cut across East Cambridge, Vellucci's home section. One route, according to Vellucci, "will wipe out an entire neighborhood, including my own home...