Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McDonald, who returned recently from two New York education conferences, stated that he had seen "real concern" for similar programs among college representatives. He hoped that if Harvard started such a plan, it would be joined by other Eastern colleges in advancing a "study now, pay later" plan...
...study also includes criticism of the Administration for indicating "some lack of concern" for the program, revealed in grading systems...
...latest issue for concern was the dog in the Russian satellite. "I think it's simply horrible," one of the ladies said, and wrung her hands abstractedly. "That poor puppy, whining, lonely, and petrified by the dark. And then they poison her." She wrinkled her nose...
...more general trouble, said Chancellor Lawrence A. Kimpton of the University of Chicago, is that the educationists have so often distorted the doctrines of John Dewey. "Thinking begins, says Mr. Dewey, in an interest or a concern. Therefore, said the educator, our problem is to interest students, and this interpretation passed over easily into the distortion of amusing and entertaining them . . . Dewey is really saying that thinking begins in maladjustment to the environment and continues as an active, tough and difficult process . . . This was misunderstood by certain professional educators, whose influence exceeded their wisdom, to mean that...
...indication that year of publication is 1957, not 1857, is a varying concern seen througout the magazine with man's ability to annihilate himself. Phyllis McGinley puts the sugar-coating of humor on the situation...