Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have come across the following passage of a letter written by Daniel Webster to his son Fletcher, who was about to be graduated at Harvard, in 1833: "I have seldom felt so much concern about anything of the kind as I do upon your success upon that occasion. I pray you spare no pains. Do your best, and you will do well enough. I earnestly remind you of the necessity of acting with great caution in regard to all festivities. You remember what I said to you on that head, and I pray you forget no part of it." - [Scholastic...
...convenient to him as he passes along. And again, there is often but little notice given in advance. A man may make the rounds even late in the afternoon and then find too late the next day that he has missed a notification that was of considerable concern to him for the earlier part of the day which is now past. It would be well if certain definite localities were adhered to for the posting of these official bulletins, and that care be taken to give notice in advance sufficient for all practical purposes...
Vanderbilt has had two hundred yards of costly silk hangings woven at the celebrated establishment of Cheney Bros., for his new mansion in New York. The hand embroidery on this beautiful material cost nearly four thousand dollars. The silk draperies made by the same concern expressly for him are delicately interwoven with threads of pure gold and cost fifty dollars per yard...
There is one enterprising concern in Cambridge - the Union Railway Company. If it had not been for them we should all have been snowed...
...Bellows had a warm interest in the Harvard Register until the untimely demise of that paper; and he contributed several articles to its columns. His interest in the Divinity School also was always active; and in many other ways he showed his concern in the prosperity of his Alma Mater and her sons. The Nation speaks of him with high praise as a citizen, and says: "He was the minister of a very small denomination, but there was no public interest which did not owe something to his untiring activity, his ready sympathy and generosity, and his remarkable powers...