Word: section
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story on the St. Lawrence Seaway, which accompanies four pages of scenic river views in color in this week's issue, was written by Edwin Copps, senior writer in the CANADA section, who was born in Eganville, near Ottawa. Researcher for the story is another Canadian, Harriet Ben Ezra, who was born in Winnipeg. Working on the story of the actual start of the seaway was a pleasing assignment for Copps. "It made Harriet and me feel sort of patriotic," he said...
Indeed, except for the fact that dormitories are referred to as Houses (but the Yard is still the campus), and co-eds are mostly segregated into one section called "Radcliffe," there is not much to indicate that the editors of 319 have spent the last twelve months in Cambridge instead of, say, in Williamstown or Evanston, Illinois. This is too bad, for a lot of things happen in Cambridge which do not happen exactly the same way in other universities and which the Harvard graduate may want to remember. There is an academic life, for instance...
...right, below, a visitor enviously examines a case of cut precious stones in the Minerological Museum, and in the lower right corner, a model of a glant devilfish hangs over two museum-goers in the Comparative Zoology section...
...Widener Circulation Department momentarily deserted its regular assignment last Friday to have a try at the growing problem of circulating readers. The result: a series of direction giving maps posted in the stacks bearing red stars and captions: "Here you are. It is 400 yards to Section...
...Lewises still live in the now famed studio apartment in London's decaying Netting Hill section (it became "Rotting Hill" in one of his books) that has been their home for 20 years. Visitors are rare, with the exception of Lewis' old friend T. S. Eliot, who also keeps him supplied with champagne, Lewis' only drink. Though gentle and courteous to strangers, Lewis is too much on the boil ever to symbolize the cool peak of disciplined independence which he regards as the acme of civilization. His deepest strength lies in what Critic Geoffrey Grigson has called...