Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main part of the island (area about 255 sq. mi.) is made up of a mountainous east end covered with perennially green forest and a drier west end covered with cattle ranches, thousands of acres of pineapples, and the Hoolehua-Palaau and Kalanianaole homesteads and house lots of the Hawaiian Homes Commission-totaling some 7,500 acres-on which that Commission is successfully rehabilitating some 1,250 Hawaiian farmers and their families. There are now about 410 "patients" at the settlement and a population of near 10,000 on the main island...
...longer will sleepy book borrowers have to compete in the mad "9 o'clock Marathon" to the second floor of Widener Library in order to return the over-night books. There is no more danger of being trampled by the throng of anxious students on the main stairs...
Charica A. Mabady, superintendent of the Reading Room, has announced the books may now be returned to the attendent at the inspection booth in the main entrance, "but," he said, "they must be returned by 9 o'clock sharp, not one minute after the hour or else you'll still have to take them to the Reading Room desk upstairs...
...moderately sized table, attended by one of Mr. Mahady's faithful cohorts to insure the safety of the University's property, and placed between the main door and the turnstiles would adequately solve the problem. By permitting overnight books to be returned at such a table the library would render the students a real service as well as relieve the book inspector of considerable trifling in the early morning hours. The maximum time an attendant would have to be on duty is thirty minutes. This small reform is worthwhile and would require little effort...
...purpose is in the main twofold:- to interest the students in the work of the course and to develop in each of them a sound English style. To achieve either or both of these aims, no aspect of the Crimson's claborate program is necessary. The success of the first depends upon the individual section man. The achievement of the second rests not so much upon the adoption of a rigid program as upon the helpful criticisms of the instructors. By assigning topics on the basis of your reports, the Crimson is overlooking the fact that the assignment of topics...