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Word: sectional (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are a great many interesting ideas packed into a small space, but at times one generality follows so closely upon another without concrete illustration, that each one loses much of its significance. This is particularly true in the first section describing how the administrator of a university can do his work effectively. Although Dr. Lowell says it is not a description of what was actually done but rather a sketch of how a design can be executed, at the same time, if he had enlarged this section and drawn more specifically from his own experience, it would have been...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 10/6/1938 | See Source »

Time Capsule, not to be opened for 5,000 years. Into the capsule they had crammed a cross-section of 20th-century culture- films, clothing, articles "pertaining to the grooming and vanity of women," poker chips, slips of paper, dimes and dictionaries, reproductions of art, letters, music, a copy of TIME'S 15th-anniversary issue (February 28) on microfilm. Three items chosen to show the "Futurian Man" typical prodigies of 20th-century music were: 1) Finlandia by Jean Sibelius; 2) The Stars & Stripes Forever by John Philip Sousa; 3) Flat Foot Floogie by Bud Green, Slim Gaillard, Slam Stewart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Buried Culture | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...courses section men themselves call the roll, while in French F and Mathematics A students are employed as monitors in sections containing over 30 men. Instructors in any course, however, have the right to take attendance if "it would be for the best interest of the class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 230 Monitors Employed by University Keep Sharp Eyes on Course Attendance | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

Obligations of the head monitor include arrangement of seating, responsibility for notifying instructors of students who drop or all the course, and checking up on various section monitors who work under...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 230 Monitors Employed by University Keep Sharp Eyes on Course Attendance | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

They are required to mark students absent if, at six minutes past the hour, or at a time designated by the instructor, they are not in their assigned seats. Head monitors are required to collect absence reports of section assistants, which they must file at University Hall by 5 o'clock that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 230 Monitors Employed by University Keep Sharp Eyes on Course Attendance | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

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