Word: seeking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...latter becomes obscured, teams are selected not from the large body of men who are fond of athletics, but only from the smaller number who are in sympathy with those who happen to be in control at any time and with the particular policy by which the latter seek to obtain victory and honor. If on the other hand the calls for candidates for our teams asked every one to come out who was fond of baseball, or football, or rowing, as the case might be, and were always responded to accordingly, there would not only be a large amount...
...announcement of subjects for the Bowdoin prize dissertations will be eagerly welcomed by a considerable number of men whose competitive instincts seek an intellectual field for their exercise. Though the ultimate aim of such prizes must be to stimulate an active interest in the various lines of study, yet the distinction of winning a prize is in itself a perfectly commendable incentive to intellectual effort. It would be well if we had more prize competitions than we do. If that were the case, and the standards were kept high, the problem of securing more general recognition to scholarly attainment, which...
...disciple of his had to forsake all possessions and follow Him. It is true that the slow, stupid populace with which he had to deal needed some goad to arouse them to a consideration of their spiritual condition; but that does not solve the riddle entirely. He did not seek to take away worldly possessions and objects of love from his followers; he rather wished to put them in a position to know the true relations between earthly possessions and spiritual life. As Copernicus was the first to consider the sun the centre of the universe, so Christ...
...should like, in addition, to refer to these words in Mr. Endicott's letter: "I have not the slightest desire to convince any one who has not agreed with me from the first." Who then does he seek to convince...
...ability. "Harvard has business only in the Back Bay and lifts her skirts away from the contamination of the North End." Had the writer himself ever approached the North End, he would not thus have exposed his ingnorance. In the houses of the poor in this district, Harvard students seek out in person the objects of their charity and labor to raise them to a higher life. It is safe to say that in no other college is there such effective organization of charitable and philanthropic work. "Harvard is not likely to bother about the idle fancies of human brotherhood...