Word: sections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...economic desperation the University has been pushed into the corner where sacrifice of one thing is necessary to save another. The value of the section is being questioned, but to destroy or curtail the number of sections contradicts the policy of individualized education and reverses the trend away from the impersonal lecture system. Excluding tutors and the extra-curricular counselor, the Freshman finds in the section his only chance for direct contact with the teacher, and, considering that the secondary school technique still engulfs him, he depends heavily upon such instruction his first year. English A exemplifies the large Freshman...
...They give him the blissful illusion, common among undergraduates at the University of Chicago, that he is acquiring the sum of all knowledge, when in reality he is being given only a few insubstantial generalities. They destroy the personalized education, traditional at Harvard, either by large lectures or by section meetings so large that they degenerate into lectures. Thirdly, by demanding little thought and only stereotyped, parrot replies, they send the student, not to Widener or Boylston, but across Massachusetts Avenue to the tutoring schools, where he is likely to remain the rest of his undergraduate days. It might...
...shun the one big State issue which might have made the campaign more complex: the trans-Florida ship canal, which north Florida wants, and south Florida fears. But by last week. Claude Pepper, deciding most of his votes will come from north Florida anyway, told citizens of that section he was strong for the canal, accused Messrs. Sholtz & Wilcox of "pussyfooting...
Frenchman in the U. S. He was the guest at Newport of General and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, and on wisecracking terms with President Roosevelt and the press. He was called back to Paris to become Chief of the American Section of the Quai d'Orsay, but State Department propheteers are sure he will ultimately return as Ambassador. He is the ace of the French diplomatic service in dealing with persons who speak English or American. He speaks both to perfection-either clipped, impeccable King's English or broad, robust United States...
...section of Franklin Roosevelt's new pump-priming program that Congress has passed on is a law allowing RFC to use $1,500,000,000 for loans of almost any sort. Last week, therefore, RFC Chairman Jesse Jones took to the air to invite businessmen to "come and get it." This they did with a rush: in Manhattan, for example, the Hotel New Yorker politely but firmly asked a bureau of the Smaller Business Association of New York to leave after 600 would-be borrowers had stormed it one morning in search of RFC loan application blanks. Nonetheless, Jesse...