Word: maining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...persons who have a valid reason for a delayed arrival at these twilight recitals. At slight hardship to this more worthy class but for great benefit to the meticulously prompt, a more rigid system of ushering seems advisable. Under the present regulations a person is allowed admittance to the main auditorium as soon as he arrives within the outer gate, no matter what is going on inside. As a consequence, the first half hour of the recital is accompanied be the incessant rattling of an archal lock and the resulting removal of outer garments...
...main collection of the Herbarium, the result of more than 80 years of continuous and carefully planned growth, contains about 750,000 sheets of mounted specimens, including all groups of flowering plants, ferns, and fern-allies, and representing the floras of all countries...
...main I approve of the new "House" plan but it seems to me that some features of it have been greatly distorted and some reduced. I do not like the idea of having a merely social center made out of the proposed "House". To me its highest function is one of reward for scholastic attainment...
...cited; also the change of less than 500,000 which, "spread around the country, would have altered the result." False note though this latter seemed-since only 137,501- more popular votes "spread around the country" would have given Hoover all the electoral votes-it did not spoil the main theme: "The Democratic party is a live, a vigorous and a forceful major minority party...
...Harvard professor, commenting upon Durant's "Story of Philosophy" suggested somewhat patronizingly that Durant had brought philosophy to Main Street but had not succeeded in bringing Main Street to Philosophy. Dewey, in looking on this field has combined both with a great deal of grace. The students of Philosophy A will quite probably support the opinion that to bring Philosophy to Main Street is not entirely to be regretted. And in doing so Dewey has not soiled the purity of intellectual emotion,--merely strained off the soporific wanderings of contemporary philosophy to bring to light certain basic principles common...