Word: maining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...becoming enrolled in the Harvard Committee. The membership will be $1.00 for the remainder of a student's course at the University. All those who wish to do active work as members of the Committee will also receive directions at this time. Such work will consist for the main part of enrolling members of the University and will be under the supervision of G. P. Baker '25, Treasurer of the Committee. It is probable that men will be given opportunities to work for the Non-Partisan Association this summer along the lines of speech-making and publicity...
...main conflict at present is under the head of a Greek war indemnity. The Greeks aver that they will under no circumstances pay an indemnity to Turkey. Turkey, with great firmness, declares that she will not give up her claims to such indemnity. Reports from Lausanne indicate that Greece will have to give way before the Turkish demands. It is more probable, however, that the question will be solved by some form of compromise...
...main part of the exposition covers an area of 75 acres, while auxiliary events, such as the agricultural show, athletic meeting, horticultural show and the international aero show, will be held on fields adjacent to the main ground...
...translators?we are speaking of those who make translation their main occupation, not of such occasional translators as Shelley, say, or Scott?have attained a genuine celebrity upon translation alone. Gilbert Murray, of course, is almost unique among those who are rather transcribers, in a way, than actual, line-for-line translators. Alexander Teixera de Mattos is justly remembered, on the one hand, for his translations of Maeterlinck, on the other for his versions of Arsene Lupin. Louise Garnett's translations of Dostoieffski have brought her deserved and discriminating praise. But, in general, the translator is reduced to the scraps...
...discovered some years ago that the administration of universities was a profession quite distinct from the profession of teaching. College presidents in the main have been compared with Bar Associations, Medical Associations and Chambers of Commerce. They are more than a class. They are a guild. But it has not been so frequently observed that the ex-administration of a university is also a profession of marked and distinguishing characteristics. An ex-president is more than a retired educator. He is a philosopher. He has passed, not out, but up. Free from the limitations which restrain...