Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most important factor is the concern of all the faculty and administration. That concern could be shown at once by the appointment of a body to investigate the education offered the individual at Harvard. $60,000 spent by a Committee on the relation of Harvard and the student would certainly produce results as interesting and as significant as those of the General Education Committee. Such a group would at all events help to create a thesis or an ideal at which the College could aim. It might also, in the long run, create a more positive education than that which...
Many of them concern shady ladies and double meanings. All are delivered in a scrape-fiddle soprano, with a prodigality of gesture and squirrel teeth. Perhaps Elsa's audiences like best the one about a wealthy, overstuffed New England heiress who builds a gazebo (latticed bower) in which to trap a mate. She coyly invites...
...desire to learn is rather than the ability. The emphasis at Harvard and at almost all other American colleges is on results--i.e., marks. The student who gets passing marks is no one's concern but his own, regardless of what kind of an education he is getting. And every undergraduate knows how easy it is, lo! even in the hallowed halls of Cambridge, Mass., to acquire passing grades without knowledge. Conversation might be a barometer: is there more discussion about knowledge gained in College courses or about the possibility of "bulling through" them without doing the work? One would...
...have been no better than the Communist variety. But here again, "Christians should know that they and their opponents or enemies belong together before God, and they should realize that, tragic as the situation is in which they seek to destroy their enemies, they never can rid themselves of concern for enemies as children...
...serpentine affair into which this innocent adventuress lightly steps takes her to a Lebanese mountain village, then to Jerusalem and to Cairo. Sardonic Sergeant Prayle of British Field Security tails her with amusement, with concern, and finally with love. Along the way the reader is treated to crisp descriptions of an ancient and holy landscape, of types ranging from a touchy Gaullist officer to an Orthodox archimandrite and his mistress...