Word: seeking
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...directed to this subject. For while it is a matter for congratulation that poverty, when it can be confessed and proved, need not bar Harvard to a fairly good scholar, it is still to be regretted that necessitous parties, who are unwilling to proclaim their condition, are tempted to seek the cheaper colleges. And it is not necessarily a false pride which restrains many parents from exposing their financial condition to the authorities of Harvard College, and causes them to object to have the fact of their pecuniary embarrassment solemnly proclaimed in the Catalogue. The competitive conditions of business...
...seek the Edelweiss," she said...
Vainly do I seek to sink...
...seek her; and the woods and wild beasts leaping...
...broadest sense. Like Mr. Sargent, we cannot imagine who "authorized" Dr. Osgood to state that there is no wish on the part of the College to change its seal; but supposing this to be so, is it a reason why Dr. Holmes should not have such a wish, or seek to influence others in the matter? For our part, we sincerely hope that those in authority may yield to the combined force of his poetry and prose...