Word: sectionally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chemistry Department yesterday awarded $600 to the 11 section men students liked best...
This year the Chemistry Department departed from a University-wide tradition of indifference to section teaching by offering eleven prizes to the men who rate highest on a poll conducted among the members of the six big undergraduate chemistry courses. The poll, devised by Professor Kistiakowsky, chairman of the department, questions students as to the personality and scientific ability of their section man as well as to the time they think he contributes to teaching. The prizes, each amounting to slightly under a hundred dollars, will come from a fund given by a Visiting Committee of the Board of Overseers...
...education and that the faculty profit by the student's suggestions to improve teaching methods. Not only has the Chemistry Department offered prizes for better instructing but has also set up a program of lectures for their teaching fellows and a routine of frequent inspections to supervise their work. Section men who persist in a casual attitude toward students will have their fellowships discontinued for the following year...
...Chemistry Department's poll indicate that the students' views as to a man's teaching ability correspond remarkably well to the opinions of the senior members of the department as to his promise in chemistry. But recognition is not enough; in establishing an active program for improving section men's teaching efforts, the department has set a precedent worthwhile of notice by the rest of the University...
...Elsie Kowalsky could hardly believe her ears. She took another look at the hole in the chimney on the third floor of the dirty-yellow brick building at IO2A Nassau Avenue, in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn. Then she called again. A man's voice answered her from somewhere below. She cried: "Why don't you come out?" The reply came hollowly: "I want to stay...