Word: main
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Parties. In Germany there are seven main parties and a number of "mushroom" parties of little or no significance...
Officers. Robert E. Speer, retiring President, opened the convention: "The last four years, in spite of doctrinal discussions, have witnessed a steady advance in the cooperative action of the churches. . . . There is no difference in view in the churches as to their main and central business of bringing human life under the lordship of Christ...
...bids fair to equal last year's record of 350 stolen books. In the courses in Economics, Social Ethics, and Philosophy alone, 25 books have been missing since October 1. "But the worst part of it all", complained Librarian C. A. Mahady, when interviewed across the desk of the main reading room, yesterday "is that often a single volume of a series is stolen, and then the library usually has to buy an entire new set in order to replace just one volume. Recently, several volumes of Emerson's journals and one of the International Encyclopedia have been pilfered...
...only have books been pilfered from the main reading room, but there have been many cases of mutilation which have reduced materially the value of the books. One thoughtless student, evidently to make his labors in the stacks more comfortable, propped himself up with a big volume, with the result that the back of the book, a valuable reprint of an old Spanish edition, was complete crushed. There have also been several cases of cutting out pictures from books or magazines, some of which will be hard to replace. In fact the situation towards the end of last year...
...Harvard Dramatic Club and its increasingly rich traditions to some more discerning institution. Like the Workshop the Dramatic Club has in the last few years built up an enviable reputation for serious artistic performance, and now, and apparently for some time to come, it will have to be the main resource of members of the University who are interested in this most vital of all the arts of the present day. Those who have observed the enthusiasm and devotion of past and present members of the club have little fear that it will not live up to this new responsibility...