Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrote that the seminar proposal "reflects a kind of provincialism which I hope is not representative of the scope of interest of Harvard students." He asked that emphasis be placed on "what Harvard can do to contribute to the solution of problems which are the common concern of all American students...
...teachings of Groton Headmaster Endicott Peabody and the example of his distant cousin, Theodore Roosevelt, according to Freidel, combined to produce in the adolescent F.D.R. a strong sense of social responsibility and a taste for the virile life. Freidel also noted Roosevelt's early concern with being well-liked and his adolescent willingness to accommodate himself to the ways of his prep school classmates in order to gain popularity...
...conviction is growing," he says, "that the law should not be isolated from other disciplines." Episcopalian Stringfellow merges his own Christian concern so thoroughly with his profession that he lives and works in an East Harlem tenement section, practicing criminal law in order to "share the burdens of other...
This crimson cold shoulder to Dixieland may have daunted or diverted Harvard dixie activity; but Mel Dorfman, Bowdoin grad and clarinet man, hurls a challenge of his own at collegiate non-concern. Remember jazz at Tulla's last fall, or Crimson Cafe Dixieland early this year? These were Dorfman's groups--the most recent phases of a three-year campaign for Harvard Square jazz. As Mel will say, "Since last fall things have really started to move...
...first thing Morris discovered was that Harvard was an Academy of Form. This fact reflected itself in his General Education composition course, and, later, in the English Department. The understanding of form and technique--the craft, as Percy Lubbock has it of fiction--was the primary concern of all Harvard and had been for three centuries...