Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...politicians, who have obtained but too great a hold over the people. It is useless to discover how this state of things has been brought about; there have been various causes, and the blame does not rest altogether on the shoulders of any one class. But what is our concern and the concern of every patriotic citizen of the United States is to find a remedy, and the only remedy in our power is to see that every honest and intelligent vote possible is cast. Harvard men were not found wanting in patriotism in the war for the Union...
...venturing an opinion as to the liberty any paper should possess. It is not the amusement, by any means, that induces men to devote so much of their time to writing. The real aim of every college paper is to voice the best collegiate sentiment on subjects that intimately concern a student ; and that, by so doing, it tends to raise the tone of a college is a matter, we are glad to say, that is quite beyond dispute...
College papers are not generally liked by college faculties; a situation which does not seem to give the papers deep concern. In college, as but of it, it is a safe plan not to put yourself in opposition to the papers.-[Progress...
...York Tribune, containing a personal attack upon a popular professor, to the students of Yale College. Such interference is in the highest degree impudent and underhanded. It is not at all a question of free trade or protection which is involved. The case is one of the greatest concern to all college men, as it strikes directly at the right of instructors to teach in the way that seems best to them. However disagreeable the teachings of a professor may seem to any set of men, it is absolutely necessary that the professor should be sustained in his right...
...success of the society, however, depends more directly upon the energy and efficiency of the superintendent. It is difficult to appreciate to what a great extent the past year's success has been due to the painstaking and thorough management of the present incumbent. Therefore it is with considerable concern that we learn that the present superintendent contemplates giving up the office. His reasons for this step are entirely personal. As so much of the success of the society has been due to the confidence its members felt in their manager, his resignation at this time would be a severe...