Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concern for our democracy can regard this with complacency. At first it was "only the Communists" who suffered from such denials of civil rights--more and more, in the name of national defense, the attack has spread to other minorities, to organized labor, to all groups that speak for peace. If these attacks are to be stopped anywhere, they must be stopped everywhere, and first of all where they are sharpest--on the Communists...
Educators view the present war with deep concern," said Dr. Mark A. May of Yale's Institute of Human Relations to a large audience in the Fogg Art Museum last night. The occasion of his speech was the seventeenth annual Inglis Lecture of the Graduate School of Education...
...observed that in general, educators throughout the country seem to show a deep concern over the war, and are far more afraid of the effects of an Axis victory than the actual ravages of such a conflict. Several of the oldest problems of education, such as loss of financial backing and possible government control, are giving them more concern than any of the difficulties peculiar to the modern...
Many a scholar and many a liberal have looked with increasing concern at not only the plight of the European Jew, but also at the rising tides of anti-Semitism in our own country. Even at Harvard, the Jewish student is received and treated upon a slightly different basis from his fellow students. And although this difference is, fortunately, very slight and is limited to social activities (clubs, dances) the fact that at this time it exists at all is a threat to the future. This slight difference can grow; and if our country enters upon a period of social...
...cent of the Jewish student body, the Harvard Avukah Chapter is as large and as active as any organization at college. It is for that reason significant. it is significant also because it is facing with courage and with practical activity a problem of the future which is a concern both of the non-Jews and of Jews themselves. It is trying to educate the Jew to live in an Aryan culture without destroying his own. Because it acts with other liberal organizations, it is a most important force for the preservation of the democratic spirit in young minds...