Word: seeking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...exists at Harvard, and probably at all colleges, a spirit of indifference for general excellence. Men come to college to study, and perhaps do study most faithfully, but if their one aim is to make themselves learned, then their courses at college are not thorough successes. Every man should seek both to bring profit to himself and to give it to others; the double motive is the only complete motive. Beyond doubt in this fact we find the strongest argument for the establishment of what we may call intellectual societies, societies devoted to study and mutual improvement. Such societies cast...
...enthusiasm and calls on you, the trustees of her prosperity for it. Cleanse her politics, elevate society, defy the arrogance of public opinion. Will you leave the world better for living in it? Or will you be of those who die, though they have never truly lived? Seek not wealth and praise; take upon you self-sacrifice and humility, endure opposition. "Fight! Fight! Fight in the battles of your...
...Yale and the other prominent American colleges were familiar to him; that England's scholars and England's divines followed the researches of ours. Standing before such a large body of young men, he felt compelled to say, as an English divine had said before, "I bid you aspire" Seek better things. There are, however, three classifications of better things. The lowest - but one not to be despised - the personal success of rank and wealth. This is in the power of any who has iron enough in his nature to say, "I ought, I can, I will." Higher...
...perusal of the above changes, it will be found that the referee is given almost unlimited power; he can declare the ball "down" whenever he sees fit, disqualify a player for off-side or unnecessarily rough play, and declare a game forfeited if either side should seek to gain anything by delay. He is absolute, no one can question his decisions, and he is unhampered by judges. With the proper man as referee, there is no reason why the game should not be entirely freed from its objectionable features...
...granting no allowance for temporary absence until the first of November. Students should remember the crowded condition of the hall at the beginning of last year, and if it is their intention to remain there permanently, apply at once; but in justice to the large number who will seek later to gain admission, no one ought to secure a seat unless it is his intention to retain it during the year...