Word: pursuit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Governor said he is determined that the university "will not be closed down," but will continue to function "in pursuit of its primary mission--the education of our young citizens...
...even knows how to create the perfect home for the competent and unprejudiced study and research. The best way we have yet found, however, is the university populated with men who have been selected for their competence and integrity by peers who feel dedicated to the pursuit of truth. The modern American university is the practical embodiment of this institutional ideal. Your editorial displays inadequate appreciation of how much has been won in developing this kind of university, how hard it was to win, and how fragilely it is held...
...dedicated faculty is the prime bulwark of the free-speaking open-minded university. Their free pursuit of knowledge is under virtually perpetual challenge: from alumni, from patriotic citizens, from demanding donors, and now from students and the CRIMSON. It is not worthy of you to ask for more control of the Faculty than you would concede to alumni or the government. Your stake in the defense of scholarship against the pressure to serve any cause or interest whatsoever is as great as the Faculty's stake; after all, we have had our university training, yours is still in progress...
...Eastern Europe. It is the sort of modus vivendi that has been the aim of Monsignor Agostino Casaroli, a veteran church dip omat, who over the past few years has been in charge of negotiations with the Communists. Not all of Casaroli's Vatican colleagues feel that his pursuit of compromise has won more than it has given away, though there is little question that liberalization in Czechoslovakia and recognition in Hungary have improved Catholic status...
...seeking it they hope to profit further from Americans' successes, as well as from their failures and shortcomings. So, despite the pessimism about the limitations of material progress, which the paradoxes of the American experience have lately pointed up, it is unlikely that the world will abandon its pursuit. The present rebellion by the blacks and the young could still fragment American society beyond anything now imagined possible. The end result will more likely be a heightening consciousness, a raising of national sights. The new challenging target will be progress, understood in a broader and more sophisticated...