Word: concern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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McGill may fear intellectual snobbery. Cornell needs first to acquire a significant intellectual curiosity on the part of its undergraduate body; concern over snobbery may follow later. Cornell Daily...
...definite word has been given out by authorities concerning the future activity of the Garden, other than President Lowell's statement. The conversion of the Garden for scientific uses has aroused a great deal in University circles, and many students and faculty members have expressed concern that it should cease to function primarily as a horticulture garden, which it has been for several years, aside from its production of materials for the Department of Botany...
Those who established the present faculty rule in regard to the time of starting of football games no doubt had a laudable purpose in view; but their concern for the academic and digestive well-being of students rather overshot its mark and struck with acute discomfort at the other end. The shades of dusk form pretty enough material for the sentimental moments in hard, slashing football stories, but for the spectators, they are a gloomy touch that succeeds in destroying a good part of the afternoon's pleasure. It is assumed that the long-delayed adoption of numbers for players...
...Saturday class during autumn is a dismal, sparsely attended affair at best. The Saturday one o'clock that concern undergraduates, to whom theoretically the first interest in the football team belongs, are very few. The half-hour surplus allowed at the start of the afternoon would hardly lead an earnest football follower to the classroom in preference to the pre-game practice. Of course the present October must be concluded with the last quarter of the game a matter for investigation in the Sunday sports section; but posterity is still to be considered, and in its behalf the faculty might...
Last week came the Silver Jubilee (25 years) of the Fox Theatres, announced by lavish two-page newspaper advertisements that told of gala performances, mysteriously adding: "Far more important than even the entertainment, will be a message from William Fox of vital concern to the future welfare of every patron of Fox theatres...