Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...present juncture the most important concern of Congress should be settling the social unrest that is undermining our national existence. What the people want from Washington is peace, prosperity and production. What they are getting is pork, politics and piffile...
...aspire to be a politician, but in my travels I have received some impressions that I hope are correct; and these are that this League is not an irrevocable compact, but a means of getting together, of discussing and trying to answer some of the great questions that concern the safety of the whole world. And as the League of Nations is the best solution for this, it must come...
...University Press, with Mr. Lane as its first director. Three and a half years later the Press was moved into more extensive quarters in Randall Hall, on the corner of Divinity avenue and Kirkland street. Here, under Mr. Lane's able direction, it has developed into a large concern which does not only the routine printing for the University, but has published some 300 scholarly books as well...
Ostensibly the Transcript is asking for information. As regards his work at Harvard, a glance at the Elective Pamphlet shows two undergraduate courses given by Mr. Laski--Political Theory and English History Since 1688, and two research courses in Recent Political Ideas. None of these concern themselves with American government, and treats the Soviet principle only as a part of the general history of political ideas. We do not agree with Mr. Laski's remarks before the Policemen's Union, nor do we believe his presence there good taste. But we feel equally that any attack on the right...
...another case, among a collection of manuscripts, is a letter from Benjamin Franklin expressing his concern at the Harvard fire of 1764. The Bible of President Increase Mather and a religious book, believed to be the only volume belonging to John Harvard which survived the fire of 1764, are also preserved. The collection is in a new set of cabinets recently given, together, with some furniture, by the visiting committee of the Board of Overseers to the Treasure Room. The exhibition will be on view for several months...