Word: concerns
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...best be transacted by men who have had business training and experience. Any man of intelligence will make his mark in the diplomatic service of a government but he must in addition have training as he would necessarily have for the army or navy or any large business concern...
...office to which he has been as yet only nominated he considers of the greatest importance in the development of the United States, for the welfare of the country is dependent on the character and efficiency of the young men, which are being moulded in our colleges. His concern for them is as much for their associations with each other in a high and ideal atmosphere as for the things which are taught and learned. Expressions of his opinions on various subjects in the newspapers he advises to be discredited as he does not believe the press is the proper...
...particular concern at present is the outdoor winter sports. The inadequate facilities for indoor sports in the Hemenway Gymnasium and the growing feeling against basketball make it imperative that the outdoor sports be placed as largely as possible at the service of those who play for the fun of it and for the fresh air it puts into their lungs. Through a chain of unfortunate circumstances scrub hockey was either neglected or prevented last year. The opportunities afforded this year by the ice on the river near the boat houses will relieve the congestion which has existed in the Stadium...
After all the first concern of an institution of learning is to provide intellectual training. There are ways and ways of bringing this about, of course, but the fundamental way on which Harvard University as well as most of the universities of today was founded, is to provide a wholesome and keen enthusiasm for serious mental effort for the sake of the people who enter its doors. Other activities and aspects of the life have their value, largely in proportion to the moderation with which they are practiced, but it remains for the intellectual efforts and ambitions...
...success of winning teams. Traditions can be maintained only with much effort and vigilance; they can easily become mere breaths of the past and mean nothing to those of us who belong to the present generation. Nor are traditions always worthy of further perpetuation. But in matters which concern so deeply the life of the University the past should not be so utterly put away, and the most satisfactory method of retaining its history is to preserve the actual emblems of bygone achievement. Into whosesoever hands the care of the Trophy Room shall fall, we hope to see its functions...