Word: section
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remain in Section 12 of the Bright Center have lost most of their originality already. The Harvard band continues to sing a hopelessly clueless tune far too often. Alumni seemed to be scared away from the arena by the current state of the on-ice product...
Second, a few weeks ago I attended a dissertation colloquium in Robinson Hall. The room was filled with professors, graduate students and undergraduates--all there to listen to a graduate student present his first chapter and to give suggestions. I expected it to be like a poor undergraduate section, with everyone putting in his or her two cents just for the sake of talking. Instead, it became a real discussion, with professors building on the points of undergraduates and vice versa. Everyone left that room with new thoughts about the dissertation topic. It revealed an intellectual side of Harvard that...
...focus of the concert was the local premiere of Boston University composer Charles Fussell's fifth symphony. In a preconcert lecture, Fussell said that the piece, written in a town of only 25 residents, owes something to the "spaciousness of Wyoming." Featuring an expanded percussion section, it made many rhythmic demands that the orchestra faced with mixed results. Of the piece's five themes, only two were as compelling as the other music on the program: an angular theme for strings and a long chorale that sounded best in the brass. Once again concertmaster Salley Koo was first-rate...
Dean of FAS Jeremy R. Knowles has consistently and publicly endorsed the idea of smaller sections. We encourage him to put his money where his mouth is and lower section size in the next fiscal year...
Regardless of their size, sections will not provide a productive learning environment if they are led by poor teaching fellows. Teaching fellows serve as students' primary human link to the course and the material; large sections and poor teaching equally detract from this relationship. While smaller sections would be a favorable change, the quality of section leaders should not be neglected in order to lower the number of students in each class...