Word: seeking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...course harder than another? It is simply a man's inadaptibility to that course. What is hard for one man is easy for another and conversely. If a man wishes to win honors and fails to keep pace with his competitors, instead of complaining about the course, he should seek more fruitful fields for his labor...
...furnishing such poor food at the table presided over by him that the guests rose in rebellion. He was forbidden to talk to any of the guests and ordered to keep in the back part of the house. It is to be presumed that next season he will seek some more congenial field, perhaps a Maine hay field. Then again, to form the habit of the lackey by living on fees, is mentally if not financially belittling, unless one is bent on purely psychological study. - N. Y. Times...
...Harvard amounts to a greater number of students than Yale has ever had in its Academical Department! If for ten years longer these ratios of increase should remain unchanged, in 1895 Harvard College would be teaching over 1,700 students, while only about one-third of that number would seek the system of our fathers at Yale. Computed at the current rates charged for instruction at the respective colleges, Harvard will derive a revenue of $256,350 from these 1,708 students, while Yale will get but $83,580 from her 597, or an annual loss to her exchequer...
...philosophy thus should be one that shows the deep thought and idealism of the country; an English philosophy should be matter of fact; a French philosophy light and fantastic, and so through the whole category. The absurdity of any such doctrine then becomes evident. The philosophy that all should seek is the philosophy that applies to all. An American philosophy should only be American, in so far as being American it can still be fit for all other nations. To most thinkers philosophy is identical with religion, and the religion which Americans should have is the true religion...
...that of Romany, which is peculiar to Harvard and naturally adapted to express minor Harvard ideas. To attempt to eradicate this system of language would be to attempt to curtail our expression of thought, for many of the terms have acquired a significance which it would be vain to seek in any words distinctively more elegant. The use of these cant terms clings to us more or less through life and marks us as men of Harvard. The man of '79 is as easily recognized at times as the grave and potent senior who has but just heard the gates...