Word: sections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME entered the market with a new sophistication process? I refer to the recent Quiz section. Or have the Editors carried over collegiate quiz-taking habits and now wish to paternalize their helpless readers? There are too many vital and pertinent items of news interest for your able but caustic causerie to permit a column and more for the self-improvement guild. Most of us are delighted and edified by the rest of your scintillating columns. We deplore such an unnecessary attempt to dictate a more careful reading. Has not TIME an audience sufficiently alert and curious and discriminating...
Clearly, the limitation in size of new classes is an exceedingly desirable restriction. It is calculated to reduce the painful pressure of numbers upon facilities, particularly in large introductory courses, to improve the calibre of instruction by reducing the number of section men and permitting a proportionate increase in salary, and to relieve the grave burden under which the tutorial system now operates...
...section, Quiz, in my opinion easily doubles the value of TIME as a magazine of information. Many of us humans are too prone when reading to drift at random through a congeries of facts without relating them to matter already assimilated. Hence we forget what we read. The anticipation of a question upon what is read evokes just enough effort to effect such a relation or coordination, and the fact sticks−we have learned...
...Sharon Springs, Kan., a white cow observed one of last week's sunrises, ruminatively as was her wont. But she never finished that morning's cud. At 7 o'clock the ground yawned beneath her with a rumbling roar and she was swallowed up, with a section of her pasture, into the bowels of the earth. That at least was what people thought had happened...
...Cross Section. Look 50 years ago, to 1876. Disraeli is 72. Gladstone is 67. Both have been in politics a full generation?Tory Disraeli almost always "out" [of power] and until recently detested by most of the members of his own party, which can find no better man to lead it; Gladstone, "in and out," half-in, half-out, goaded around the arena by a conscience, the subtlety of which he is interminably explaining to the misapprehensive gentlemen of England...