Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Report, the Committee on General Education indicated a sincere concern for giving the generally educated student a fundamental comprehension of the natural sciences. Yet, partly through implication and partly through direct statement, the Committee withheld an important tool for the adequate presentation of the scientific method...
...claim of general education is that the history of science is a part of science," the report tells us. This is undoubtedly true, and it is also true that the report does show a concern over the presentation of the scientific method. However, in the leap from report to practice, history gained the upper hand, and method was somewhat lost in the shuffle. A first step towards putting the natural sciences in a modern perspective would be to remedy this situation...
...this professor indicated, the relationship of religion to educational matters has not been of concern to members of the University at large. Many members consider it "a pity" that it has come up, and hope that "there will be some way of restoring balance...
...Memorial Church "a symbol of disunity in the Harvard community." Although he feels that "one can find legitimate and esthetic justification for the view that a Christian place of worship be just that," he "cannot avoid the feeling that matters of sectarian religious doctrine have been put ahead of concern for the Harvard community...
...disunity in the Harvard community. To those of us who are not Christians, it is a place that is not available for sanctification either of joy or of grief. There has been exclusion. I cannot avoid the feeling that matters of sectarian religious doctrine have been put ahead of concern for the Harvard community, a community so fine and just in its temper and standards that many feel it to be one of the great achievements of American life...