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...method of teaching is also different from the traditional approach. There will be no failing grades given at FCC, only two or three shades of "pass." Lectures will be replaced, as much as possible, by secton-type seminar meetings, and when lectures are held, the hope is to make them "happenings" --movies, debates, discussions between students and faculty members, and the like. Innovation is the key at FC, innovation in terms of involving students more in the process of teaching...

Author: By Andrew Jamison, | Title: Community College for the Capital | 10/19/1968 | See Source »

...July 4, four civil rights workers, including a Harvard junior, were arrested in Selma, Ala. while testing the public accommodations secton of the Civil Rights Law of 1964. They have remained in jail since Saturday, unable to post the $500 cash bail that has been demanded for each count...

Author: By Richard Cotton, | Title: Harvard Junior Jailed In Test of Rights Law | 7/7/1964 | See Source »

...General Laws, Chapter 71, secton 30, states "all the preceptors of the college, especally the unversity at Cambridge, must teach obedience, chastity, love of country, and all those virtues that are the ornament of the human society on which our republic was founded...

Author: By Philip M. Cronin, | Title: Firing of Red Teachers Demanded by Legislator | 1/4/1951 | See Source »

Creak, creak went their rubbers. And the brief cases at their sides swung to and fro, to and fro not unlike the movement of dromedaries--but that is another story. Three secton men, marching toward the house of a Cambridge lady on Christmas--was it Christmas--Eve...Surely that has nothing to link it with fable or fancy or even myth...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 12/17/1926 | See Source »

They were not quite comfortable. Thwait wished for the absence of Jones and Plimpkin. They wished for the same. None was at all sure of himself. Secton men are not heroes. Why should they be? This was a situation. It needed a hero...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 12/17/1926 | See Source »

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