Word: main
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...geisha girls, jinrikishas, and paper houses has been transformed into a bustling, optimistic country of Rotarians, go-getters, and "Service First" business men. The old Japan still moves only in the enchanting interpretations of Lafcadio Hearn. It has given way to the push of the Babbitt. An American Main-Streeter, member of the college friendship pilgrimage which has just completed an exploration of the modern Japan, is the only one who can properly eulogize the new soul of the Orient...
...classic home of the cherry blossom and wickedly slant eyed damsels, become another Goblier Prairie? No doubt the student representatives were asked to address the Uplift Society. It is flattering to the American sense of superiority to find no spot, however remote, which does not honor the American Main Street by careful imitation. Henceforth, the wearied American can find no lotus laden sanctuary. The Old World is imbibing the go-getter philosophy in great draughts; Doctor Frank Crane's volumes are the best American seller in France. Even the Orient, dazzled by magnificent illusions of this wonderland of material prosperity...
...main quarrel with Fundamentalism is its lack of faith in Man" was the heading which the Reverend Charles Francis Potter, pastor of the West Side Unitarian Church in New York City, summed up his Modernistic views at an address in Phillips Brooks House last night, held under the auspices of the Harvard Christian Association...
Dean H. W. Holmes '03, Dean of the School, will preside at the reception and welcome the students. Associate Professor G. E. Johnson. G. '23 will deliver the main address of the evening, speaking on the basis of war and peace in human nature, and the effect which education may have upon it. President Lowell will be the final speaker. He will deliver a brief address of welcome to the students and faculty. Refreshments will be served...
...defeat of L. H. Bondi '25 by L. O. Pratt '26 was the main upset of the tournament. Bondi, who is a seeded player, was a member of the University tennis team two years ago. Pratt's brilliant net play was largely responsible for his easy victory 6-2, 6-3. Bondi is the first seeded player who has been defeated...