Word: main
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will. That I do not know. I do not see how anyone can say, one way or another. It is perfectly true, as Mr. Borchard suggested, that the usual questions which the World Court may handle are not likely to be those which may lead to war. In the main, they will be legal questions about which nations will disagree, which may even contribute to friction, but which would seldom be inclined to lead to war. The larger political differences which occupy headlines, which give us the scares, which feed the fire-eaters, will not often be susceptible of statement...
...that the Harvard Dramatic Club are to present to us is one of Evreinov's latest dramas in which he merges together his various kaleidoscopic theories and at the same time emerges from them into something else. References in various English sources to a play by Evreinov called "The Main Thing", "The Most Important Thing", "The Chief Point", "The Chief", "The Quintessence", "What They Thought They Were", and now "Mr. Paraclete" prove all refer to one and the same play. The translation made by William L. Laurence '12, that is to be used in the performance of the Dramatic Club...
...wanted to go into an exegesis of its inner meaning, in to the "deep stuff", one might show that the "Main Thing" referred to by the title is the idea that illusion is as necessary in life itself as in the theatre, that illusion on the stage of life is even more enduring than on the stage of the playhouse, that illusion is "the main thing". "The Paraclete" referred to by the other title, is the eternal spirit who runs this show place called life and who seeing that men instinctively prefer pleasant lies to unpleasant truths, is a comforter...
...word, or whether they shall cease to be such, to become the modern counterpart of the Roman circus as dispensers of spectacular entertainment to the public. Woodrow Wilson once said with truth that athletics were the "side shows of academic life". Today football tends to become the main show. Good sense calls loudly for a return to proper relations between football and scholarship at Harvard...
...memorial will take the form of a colonnade on the south side of the Yale Dining Hall, and will have an alter of liberty in the center as its main feature. Alterations will be made in the Hewitt Quadrangle in front of the colonnade so that it will become a part of the memorial...