Word: sections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that present themselves. How, for instance, will the men be selected to occupy the various small social units? The purpose of the plan being avowedly a social improvement over the present conditions, will this end be better attained by segregating men with one dominating interest, or shall a cross section of college life be sought? If instituted at Yale, would the undergraduate rebel against attempts to separate him from his friends? For the theory of the small college entails complete absorption in the life of the one college chosen. What would be the status of the fraternity under such...
Wall Street's Prall. Meanwhile the Representative in whose district Wall Street itself is located said nothing at all. It is from the nonfinancial stretches of Staten Island that this Representative comes. He is Anning S. Prall, a perky, bright-eyed, chest-forward Tammany Democrat. The Manhattan financial section chances to be in Mr. Prall's Eleventh District, but skyscrapers do not vote and Mr. Prall does not "represent" Wall Street any more than he represents the Statue of Liberty which is also within his constituency...
Last week he heard that 22 of his prints had been donated to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum by five persons, among them Tobacco Tycoon David A. Schulte. More important, they have been accepted and will be hung in the black-and-white section among etchings and engravings...
...alrllity in administration, is more than fitted for his new work. Incidentally he will probably be the only man from New England to be chosen for the cabinet. That his appointment should be as secretary to the navy department is altogether proper, in the light of this section's maritime tradition...
...absorbing tale that takes Mr. Grove from his first job as a waiter's assistant in a cheap restaurant through the cities, factories, and harvest fields of a large section of America. His bitterness in his futile early search for Abraham Lincoln and his contempt for the type of American he does find give way finally to a rational appreciation and clear vision of America...