Word: seeking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...serve the college by a wise course of elective studies. This freedom is the greatest advance made yet by any American college, and although its utility is doubted by outsiders it is apparent here at Harvard. In our work, moreover, we should strive to have some ideal; seek to cultivate a just independence of thought, and to go beyond what other men have learned. A university amasses human knowledge, stores it up and bids its students push a little farther into study...
...serving notice of a punch upon an unsuspecting freshman, and certainly as little credit in drinking at his expense. The excess that is sometimes seen in the yard, however, is unpardonable. Not satisfied with the exhilaration of the rush itself, a few-we are glad to say, a few-seek pleasure in making conspicious their own bad taste. How much better and more manly it would be if the rush of "Bloody Monday Night" were purely a exhibition of class spirit and prowess, untainted by any show of ill-breeding...
...than previously acquired skill. That you have never played before need not deter you from learning now, and if you have not been already urged to play it is far from being proof that your work is not desired. While the captain does his utmost he cannot of course seek every man in person, and yet you who have been inadvertently passed by are perhaps the very ones who by earnest work may bring victory to Harvard, Surely in a case of this kind all reticence and self-distrust should be forgotten for the general good...
...opened with the anthem "No Shadows Yonder," by Gaul. Rev. Alexander McKenzie delivered the address. He said that there is already so much hardship in life that one who performs his duty faithfully finds his energy taxed to its full capacity. There is no need, therefore, for us to seek burdens. We may enjoy what happiness comes in our way, providing that we do not wander from the path of righteousness in seeking it. If the cross comes to us we must bear it, but if the crown comes we may wear it. The second anthem was "And the City...
...from a deity. It was not only from the near-lying states of Greece that the people came to consult the oracle at Delphi, but from states situated far away. There came to the shrine people in every rank of life. Kings sent their envoys with rich presents to seek aid from the oracle, and states sent their ambassadors to ask aid in the direction of public affairs. The temple could not but become immensely wealthy with such a revenue continually pouring into it. The riches excited the cupidity of Xerxes at the time of the Persian invasion...