Word: main
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Thus another English feature is applied as an American innovation. As an educational experiment the fortunes of the Claremont Colleges ought to be of wide interest. The main issue seems to be whether these colleges can obtain a university outlook with a small college organization. The units, obviously, will not have the traditions which bequeath the Oxford colleges their intellectual heritage. The American attempt must find its success in American conditions...
...Student Friendship Fund Drive is an agent of great potential power and benefit for youth. It is based on a breadth of vision which near sighted critics may fail utterly to comprehend The conversion of such critics is but a side issue of the main object which is a direct appeal of youth in one land to that in others. Thoughtful Americans whose minds have ventured out of the provincial stage will support the Drive...
After all, however, the main point is that all these arguments about details are trivial and irrelevant, unworthy in idealistic people like ourselves. The Harvard Glee Club is doing an invaluable and sorely needed service to our higher esthetic life. It behooves us to be duly grateful, and to support so important an influence up to the limit of our resources...
...although all seem to anticipate the slogan, "big business," as the main dish, there are open differences over the fixings. Senator George of Georgia stipulates that the Democratic Party shall "refuse to make any alliance with radical forces." Senator Bruce of Maryland concurs with him that the confidence of legitimate business must not be sacrificed through compromise with the "creak-brain economic vagaries of Bryan west". On the other hand, Senator King of Utah, conservative but none the less western, reminds his party that they must provide "a wise farm policy". Further in this direction, Representative Howard, significantly from Nebraska...
...gray stone, probably of Indiana limestone, over a steel skeleton. It will cover practically all of the 22,500 feet of land (225 feet on Riverside Drive, 100 feet on W. 122nd St.) Its nave, 100 feet wide, will run north and south, parallel with the Hudson River. Its main entrance will be at the south end through a bell tower facing the Drive. Parishioners will have a turn to their left, after entering, to face the altar. They will have about 2,500 seats at their disposal, another insistence of Dr. Fosdick...