Word: sections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...necessary this year to divide Physics C into two sections for lectures which had to be repeated. The section meeting on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 10 o'clock will next year be transformed into Physics D. This new course is intended for those who have satisfied the physics requirements for admission and who wish to obtain a general survey of the subject, but do not expect to use the course as preparation for technical work. Special emphasis will be given to the historic development of the subject and to its applications in modern life and industry. Professor Black will...
...Vassar Alumnae Association has made its chief executive of its Associate an educational director, whose section is primarily adult education, and not the raising of funds. Princeton and Amherst and other colleges have developed various intellectual channels for teaching their alumni, and the results have been most promising...
...been changed from June 12 to June 7, at 2 o'clock in the Rotch Building; Philosophy 8b, from June 16 to June 7, at 2 o'clock in Emerson D. Zoology 6b, from June 17 to June, at 2 o'clock in Memorial Hall; Mathematics A. Section IV, from 2 o'clock June 16 to 9.15 o'clock, the same day, in Sever 32 and 35; French 28a, from 9.15 o'clock June 15 to 2 o'clock the same day, in New Lecture Hall...
...spirit of levity. Harvard long ago abandoned the jocose practicality which often serves to initiate the Freshman. In place of practical humor was set up a system of more subtle wit the institution of Senior advisers. Some of these sages by proxy attended to their duties conscientiously, a numerous section did not. Too often the audience was treated to a handshake, a hurried call, and a request to drop around some time...
...course, no one who has even partly earned the right to participate in a discussion of education will expect too much of such a synthesized section of the curriculum. The historian with, say, the last hundred and the next hundred years of our-educational history before him would doubtless look upon the use of any such section of the curriculum as an emergency measure adopted by a people that found itself the victim of a great confusion resulting from an unprecedentedly rapid accumulation of knowledge. It alone will not educate men or equip them for the mastery of modern life...