Word: seeking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...abreast with righteousness; for a tyrannous enforcement of righteousness is an unrighteous tyranny. In struggling towards our ideals, while we are helped by liberty and righteousness, we must use courage as a factor. We must not be timid as to our internal relations. We must have the courage to "seek righteousness" and to protect liberty...
...Robinson was the next speaker. In opening, he welcomed the Republican Club of Harvard and stated that as this is a govenment of the majority, those who had spoken at the recent meeting ought to seek other platforms and endeavor to correct the false impression which they had carried abroad. In Harvard he had learned that protection was the one sound basis of government in this Common-wealth. Harvard had always been for the masses and when the old college ceases to be on the side of the common people, then she ceases to support those principles for which...
...prefer Blaine and 413 Cleveland. So far as it goes this certainly tends to confirm the statesmanship of Mr. Blane's letter from Paris. Turning to Yale, we find there 70 Republicans and 13 Democrats. No expression of preferences for individuals has come to us from Yale. We may seek solace against this adverse "straw" in the fact that Cleveland was elected in 1884, although the vote of Yale was then also against him. It is also worth noting that the Democrats at Yale have recently made great gains. Since 1886 the Democrats have gained 92 per cent, increasing from...
...young adventurer in Christian work may find plenty to do. The music of the choir was more elaborate than usual. Mr. G. L. Osgood of Boston sang the beautiful solo "Come unto Me," by Coenen, and the choir sang the anthems "I am Alpha and Omega," by Stainer, and "Seek ye the Lord," by Roberts...
...filled by a large accession of men from Ninety-two or unless singers among the students offer themselves at the trial of candidates in the fall. There are numbers of men in college who have good voices, but who have never had their interest aroused so far as to seek membership in the Glee Club, or who have been diffident about presenting themselves. The club does not demand men with exceptional voices, but rather those who sing with attention to the requirements of the music and with care in regard to the pitch; men who are willing to work...