Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...considerations, discussions and essays in the realm of beautiful letters concerning the house plan as it obtains at Harvard have had the common characteristic of viewing the entire affair from the purely academic angle--that is to say, as it affects the serious student, who goes to college for purposes other than social, recreational or commercial. And, as every one knows who has ever had any contact with American undergraduates, this serious student whose major pre-occupation for four years is the pursuit of curricular ambitions is a very rare fellow, indeed. Of course, this is not the burden...
Will Keith Kellogg, 70, head of the vast breakfast food concern at Battle Creek, Mich., last week again belied the general impression that he is a dour moneymaker. He created the W. K. Kellogg Child Welfare Foundation, gave it $1,000,000 for immediate use, provided for a total of $50,000,000 if & when needed...
Impatient, Dr. John Harvey wanted to supervise his own benevolence. He sold his interest in the food concern to Will Keith for almost a quarter of a million dollars, and almost at once founded the Race Betterment Foundation (1906). A more intimate good deed was his legal adoption of 14 orphans and his complete support of some twoscore more. The profits of his profitable Battle Creek Sanitarium go to such works (TIME...
Stuart Chase, commenting on the report of his class of Harvard '10, finds that twenty years after graduation, there is among his classmates in general "no interest in the problems of government, little concern for public questions, and a tendency to leave the field clear to cheap politicians." His conclusions are rather substantiated by the fact that of the 619 known living graduates, only two are members of Congress...
...study and insure the health & happiness of U. S. children, traditionally a presidential concern, President Hoover last year called a White House Conference on Child Health & Protection.* He appointed Secretary of the Interior Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur chairman; Harry Everett Barnard, Indianapolis chemist & sanitarian, director. Last week 1,200 dignitaries and clerics, who investigated for them, and 2,000 secondary experts, assembled in Washington to report, recommend...