Word: sectioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Opposition to the war has been confined pretty exclusively to the small section of the commercial class which once subsisted largely on trade with China. The penalty for a word of criticism of the war is stiff: three years in jail...
...crowd had motored miles that morning to be present and to see the President. Brenau College students and faculty in the foreground can attest what I say. President Pearce of Brenau College praised the speech without stint in his chapel address the next day, particularly the section to which you refer, and he especially noted the remarkable personality of the President...
...anonymity," created a Department of Welfare and rearranged the Federal accounting system. The last thing in the world the Reorganization Bill represented was an effort on the part of Franklin Roosevelt to make himself a dictator. That it was attacked as precisely this proved that to a large section of the U. S. any administrative change which the President now suggests can be made to seem ipso facto suspect. It also proved that no kind of Congress wants to give up patronage, for one of the most important phases of the bill would have facilitated putting hundreds of appointive jobs...
...Hall. Since every variety of reaction to any one course is possible among undergraduates themselves, some men may find that they have been misguided. But every effort is made not only to be scrupulously fair to every course and every instructor, but also, through careful choice of a cross section of students in the several departments, to present as representative a picture of undergraduate thought as is possible...
...Guide attempts neither to locate easy courses and kind-hearted section men for lazy students, nor to provide a catalogue based upon the lazy man's point of view, panning stiff courses and praising easy ones. The fact is that at Harvard there are no courses which are easy in the absolute sense. Some are easier than others, and some are of more value than others to the average student; but none are simple or valueless. With this in mind their relative worth can be approximated; and the criteria used include the organization of course material, its interest...