Word: sectioning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...separate health center and a separate student employment office. But we were taught by Harvard professors, and except for first-year survey courses, we went to Harvard classes with Harvard men in Harvard buildings. The presence of women in Harvard classes was so new that professors and section men didn't know quite what to do with us. They never took our attendance, they never assigned us seats. We therefore sat wherever there was an empty seat, often in the back of the classroom, sometimes, on the floor...
...never occurred to me, or my classmates, that the absence of women professors or instructors was strange. Occasionally a very bright Radcliffe doctoral student would be a section woman, and a highly accomplished woman Ph.D. would be an instructor. I had two section women, one in economics and one in psychology, and a woman tutor. In co-ed sections, we were rarely called on and we rarely offered an opinion. I didn't think there was anything strange about that, either...
...Gill added another section to his resume. Combining the scholarship of his Harvard days with the glamour of the opera, Gill found a home in the television studio, helping to create ECONOMICS U$A, a 28-program public broadcasting television series for which he served as an on-air analyst...
Protestant and Catholic businessmen and -women work together and do some socializing, but even that is constricted by geography. More than 20,000 Protestants have fled the central section of the city on the west bank of the River Foyle for the safety of the largely Protestant communities on the east bank. So drastic was the exodus that some in the Catholic community feared the west bank would become entirely Catholic. They sent Christmas cards to residents in the Fountain area, the last remaining Protestant enclave, encouraging them to stay...
...mother and other women of the household." In 1953, a year before Ray Kroc raised McDonald's now ubiquitous Golden Arches, a Swanson food technician named Betty Cronin created the "TV dinner." Back then, when meal preparation took an average two hours, the frozen meal on a three-section aluminum tray was lauded for helping mothers "burdened with baby-boom offspring." Today the once labor-intensive process of preparing a meal has been shrink-wrapped to a tidy 15 minutes...