Word: sectionally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Section Teaching a Problem...
...Section teaching is in for a very thorough going-over from the Educational Committee. The investigations will probably be focused on the Romance Languages Department. Hale H. Knight '50 and Herbert J. Spiro '50 are co-chairmen...
...H.A.A. seems to think low seats are better than high ones--witness this week's set-up whereby seniors are in rows A to J, Section 35, while juniors are in rows K to PP in the same section. We, the undersigned, all seniors in row J or lower, feel that we have the backing of the vast majority of students in our preference for high seats (colonnade excluded) to low ones...
Specifically, we feel that seniors and-juniors should not be assigned to the wooden stands with the possible exception of section 38. Put the resulting overflow seniors at the top of the juniors first section, the overflow juniors at the top of the sophomores' first section, and so on down the field through section 37 . . . Graham Taylor '50 Robert Barrel '46 Deo Bogert '49 Peter Olney...
...half blocks to the southwest, in the Holyoke House offices of the department of Romance Languages. For a number of years this department has been plying incoming Freshmen with placement tests, which classify students for the various elementary language courses. It is undoubtedly a fair system; students are sectioned by ability. English A could use a similar method. The single purpose Anticipatory should be scrapped for an English Placement, perhaps something on the lines of the old College Entrance Examination Board Achievement tests. Such an exam would be more difficult to compose and correct, but it would certainly split...