Word: sectional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deemed practical to adopt for all courses the method of History I, which mails section assignments to all its students. Officials pointed out that the college's clerical staff is already overworked, and the added task of mailing cards of every course twice a year would be inadvisable. Also pointed out was the probability that undergraduates would misplace their cards, resulting only in confusion. According to Reginald H. Phelps '30, dean of Records, monitors will be called together, at the beginning of each academic year and following midyears. At these meetings, they will be instructed to keep the lists secret...
Last week some Maryland chemists (the Maryland section of the American Chemical Society) stuck their collective neck out. To entertain fellow chemists, meeting in Baltimore, they staged a show the like of which no chemist or choreographer had ever seen-a "chemical ballet." The theory was that the formation, movement and dissociation of molecules, the nuclear spins of electrons, etc., could be represented by appropriate music and dancing. The music was written by Dr. Donald Hatch Andrews, a musically inclined chemistry professor at Johns Hopkins, in collaboration with one of his students. The choreography was arranged by Carol Lynn Fetser...
Zimmerman pointed out that New England has more at stake in a wise management of political problems than any other section of the United States. Politically New England must, in its own interests, be "radically conservative," he warned...
Robert Koch '39, is chairman, and Henry Steinhardt '42 secretary of the League. On the executive council, chosen on a cross-section basis, are Lloyd Booth, Jr., '39; Peter Black '42; Henry Landy 1G Frances Baxter, Radcliffe '40; and Sarah Caumann, Radcliffe...
...might be well, in the second place, to find a means of forcing each Master to accept the given criteria. The Central Committee should require strict observance of the cross-section--intellectual, social, racial, and financial. Although this is at the present time fairly closely approximated, there are a few striking deviations, and one House in particular has violated the spirit of the crosssection. Much can be said for the development of House individuality and character, but this can be fostered on the basis of a cross-section as well as on that of a clique...