Word: seeking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...enemies of law and order by refusing to countenance or continue any acts of violence or unlawfulness. Any act which leaves the citizens of a great city helpless before a wave of crime is monstrous in its conception. Every loyal American must constantly combat the evil forces which seek to cause unrest in industry and to weaken our government...
...education ought to teach him not to seek for the things that will entertain or interest him, and avoid others; but to take an interest in, and throw his whole force into, whatever it is best...
...amount which we seek is large. It is absolutely necessary in the form of unrestricted funds. The first important need is a 50 per cent. increase in the salaries of the teaching staff, which has been struggling along with truly admirable self-denial on the scale established 14 years ago. For this we must raise no less than $12,000,000, to yield an income of $600,000. It is fair to say that 90 per cent. of the teachers of the University can not live without personal sacrifice on the salaries paid them as teachers...
...Crimson and Eli Phi Beta Kappa men will seek to extend their honors to the diamond today when the honor societies of the two universities meet at Now Haven at 10 o'clock this morning. A victory by the locals will prove the lack of necessity of the compulsory athletic program to be instituted at Cambridge next year. A fortnight of successful work-outs have made the University honor men the favorites over the line representing Yale...
...capacity for work, to restrain ability, is non-congruent with the ideals and aims of Harvard. An undergraduate may go whither his powers lead him; no cage is placed about him. Our sister universities sacrifice the individual for the entire group, when, if they would but seek them, tasks for all would be found, without limiting the exceptional undergraduate...