Word: unconcerned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...questions of the times and in practical affairs, we yet feel little humiliation that in the artistic and, to a certain extent, in the scholarly world we are still far inferior to our European brothers. Every day we watch with complacency the departure of friends "to study abroad." With unconcern we see the annual exodus of a quota of our graduating classes to Berlin, Paris, and other foreign centres of learning; and yet we know that this flight for knowledge is a confession of the inability to acquire that knowledge here. Does it not seem as if this great western...
...that his nervous trouble had spent its force, and began to hope that before long he would be his old self again. Therefore I, sitting before the fire, smoking my pipe and reading very leisurely the morrow's lesson in Latin, awaited his coming back with some degree of unconcern. But when it grew to be eleven o'clock, and as yet no signs of him, I could not help being a little anxious. I don't know why - it is not usual for fellows to worry much over one another's goings-out and comings-in - but yet - there...