Word: main
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such a viewpoint into the public press was the main thing. I salute you and regret only that you did not find in my own work more to satisfy your logic...
...psychology, anthropology, and sociology, the Law Faculty and members of other University departments are seeking means of integrating these branches of knowledge into the teaching of law. According to Dean Landis' report, "intermittent contact" with such subjects is inadequate; a program of purposeful association with law is needed. The main benefit of this program, according to Dean Landis, will be an appreciation by lawyers of the necessity of harmonizing their skills with those of economists and sociologists in the processes of government...
...last Monday John Knowles Paine, the founder of the University's Music Department, was born. To celebrate the anniversary of the man who, for forty-three years, was the embodiment and able champion of the College's musical tradition, Widener Library now has an eight-case display in its main hall. Appropriately chosen and arranged with taste, the exhibition contains holograph manuscripts, portraits, books, and original texts, many of which have been lent to the Library by Professor Paine's colleagues and friends. Of special note is a large, colorful portrait of Professor Paine by Caroline A. Cranch...
...Committee's high-brow ingenuity is "the Harvard University Series." Although designed to be of general educational interest, the program calls for professors from each of the graduate schools to discuss their work. And more and more these Harvard-trained Harvard professors have tended to stray from the main and to describe in detail how we do things here at Harvard. Despite its worthy goal, the Series is rapidly entering the twilight of advertising and is setting a dangerous precedent...
...schoolboy of 14 now knows, Macaulay's genius was considerably overrated. His phenomenal, encyclopedic memory was too often a substitute for thinking. His wit borrowed its main punch from his universal spleen and political bias. (Said Macaulay, who loved only his sisters: "There are not ten people in the world whose deaths would spoil my dinner.") Most of the writers and poets he demolished-Byron, Shelley, Keats, Thackeray, Gibbon,. Wordsworth, Tom Paine, Herman Melville, to name only a few- have long survived him. And his History, while still exciting for its colorful narrative, is not noted for its accuracy...