Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Lowell is quoted in this morning's papers upon various subjects of concern to the students and alumni of Harvard University. One assumes that his enthusiasms are genuine, yet hesitates at being convinced of their validity, especially in the matter of the supposed benefits of the matter of the supposed benefits of the tutorial system...
...part, I must in all fairness leave these questions open as neither the tutorial system nor the divisional examinations directly concern me. Such observations as I have made are based on my acquaintance and opinions of both tutors and undergraduates whom I have met. I hope that this letter may provoke some thought on this important matter, and to that end I quote from President Lowell: "This year every department has tutors and, although it requires additional work on the part of the students, the funny thing is they like it." Allen H. Gleason...
...purposes of European reconstruction, or that she is in any way disposed to accept the Treaty of Versailles or to recognize or take part in the political activities of the League of Nations. What it does imply is that from now onward she has an intimate and tangible concern in what, after all, is the kernel of the European problem, namely, the restoration of Germany to political and economic health...
...evils the report deplores, and may smile at the manifest absurdity of attempts to promulgate special beliefs under the guise of dispensing truth. But if Harvard has escaped, it is no less true that many American colleges and universities have not; and their plight is a matter of national concern...
...legal aspect. Prior to 1911 American Sugar Refining had owned National Sugar Refining, but was compelled by the courts to dispose of its holdings. The two companies control about a third of the world's sugar refining facilities; a merger of the two would constitute the largest refining concern in the world. The question therefore boils down to whether such a merger would or would not be a "monopoly...