Word: concernedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...member who chooses to remain anonymous. In the first place students of modern languages will find here an inexhaustible mine of present day idiomatic writing in five languages. Secondly, and more important perhaps, students of political and economic subjects will have an unequalled source of reliable information concerning conditions on the Continent and the opinions of editorial writers there. At a time when our own newspapers are filled with wild conjectures as to the financial status of Germany and Austria, for instance, the facts which are published in Vienna and Frankfurt are of more than passing concern. And thirdly...
Unemployment, nowadays, is a national evil; but at present there is a local aspect of it which is of more concern to Ithacans and Cornellians than the national problem. The Cornell University Employment Bureau in Barnes Hall is faced with hundreds of applicants for work, with very few positions to fill. There are many students in the University who are dependent on what they can earn to pay their way through college. Their predicament is no slight one if they cannot find work...
...follow this rule-if you are always busy-the trials of college need not concern you. You will not waste your opportunities; you will find that all the more are offered to you. Temptations will not trouble you because the busy man is impervious to them. You will make friends and they will be good friends; for common work is the greatest proving ground of friendship. You will see life because the only part of life worth seeing if found at work...
...Institute was made possible through the generosity of Mr. Bernard Baruch, who had the idea of creating a regular summer meeting of scholars, teachers, business men, and others interested in the questions. His thought was that today more than ever, international politics are of great concern to us in the United States; and that with the immense position we now hold in the world with its opportunities, responsibilities, and perhaps, dangers, it is of utmost importance to build up in this country an intelligent understanding of world politics...
During the past College year, articles have appeared with rather monotonous regularity proclaiming that American Colleges are hotbeds of radicalism. As a matter of fact the student population of the present day does not concern itself enough with radical doings. With a large part of Europe in the hands of the extremists of socialism and parts of the rest of the world trembling (as the pessimists tell us) on the brink it would be indeed strange if Universities were not affected. Institutions of learning are supposedly the leaders of modern thought. If modern thought is tending toward radicalism, college...