Word: sections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many at least, a bugbear. Around that course, designed to enable "the student to work out a rational view of life", there will grow rank vegetation: tutoring schools will offer to sell "a rational view of life and raise your grade a letter--or your money back." At section meetings, the unwilling will be hand fed a predigested philosophy. As Professor Lewis remarked in Philosophy A, philosophy should be only for these who are troubled by its problems. Others have no need for it. Harold Lamport...
...fourth-floor gallery of the new section has been furnished with wall and alcove cause at a cost of approximately ten thousand dollars, the greater part of this work being made possible through the generosity of friends of the Museum. These cases furnish more than 3300 square feet of exhibition space, and in them are now being installed the ethnological collections form Tibet, Burma, and northern India, secured by professor Dixon; the collections recently acquired from the native peoples of Siberia, including the Chukchi, Yakut, Samoyed, and Goldi; and those from the Malay Archipelago, the Philippine Island, and certain other...
...vacant hall remaining in the new section includes practically all of the fifth floor. This has been occupied during the year by a portion of the offices of the Graduate School of Business Administration, pending the completion of the new building for this department...
...section of the report of the Student Council's Committee on Education which suggests that divisionals or generals for distinction candidates be brought forward to the Junior year, if not so interesting to the outside world as the more sensational proposal, concerning the division of the college into smaller units, is fully as interesting to the undergraduate. For these general examinations have assumed a place of major importance in the life of the college. That they are necessary expressions of the Harvard system of education has long been admitted both by those members of the faculty whose interest...
...even in that respect, the change would not cause tremendous havoc. The present dormitory groupings, the present tutorial system, the practical system; all these are easily adaptable to the smaller colleges. Thus this section of the Committee's report is no idle vaporism or Pla tonle impossibility. It is a sane suggestion of offering a practical panacea for present ills. That it has novelty, one can easily agree. But that the novelty dwindles to insignificance before the sanity and sufficiency of its conception, one must surely admit. In this section of the report, the Committee has certainly...