Word: seeking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...deserts of the blessed--the failure of the fraction will count as the failure of the whole. But a real human being enjoys paying for a privilege by coming up to expectations. The College expects that those favored by its new scheme will study seriously and seek to get the most out of the short time left. It is but fair and just that the College be fully satisfied and thus compensated for its liberal policy...
...which you published on my previous suggestion is on my urging of the political or social attitude. Profiteering, private gain, crushing weaker nations--in those vocations there is no outlook of social justice, or of righteous acquiescence in the other fellow's striving for the same standards that we seek for ourselves. Instead of impotently denying the materialistic strain in the individual's life and thus breeding hypocrisy or scoffing, let us recognize the economic basis and utilize this recognition for such a broadening as will give the whole people a square deal in those physical advantages. In short, less...
...propose that education be made more materialistic and more political seems in itself a harmless enough suggestion. The decisive test of the advisability of adopting such a principle, however, must be pragmatic in nature; we must seek to discover how it works out when put into practice. For the justification of this or of any other system of education, then, we must look to the product that it brings forth...
...token that the world is aroused to the necessity of vast and concerted action. Perhaps it is also an indication of the universal yearning for strong leadership. In the wreck of the reputations of generals and statement, in the poverty of great and commanding names, the common people seek a supernatural leader. To their eyes the skies are not empty. Let us hope that there is something prophetic in their visions. In their very aspiration there is at least encouragement. --Boston Transcript...
...athletics are allowed to interfere in any way with military training, either because of the demands on the time of those who are trying to make the teams or because the teams occupy too large a place in the life and thought of the undergraduates, it is better to seek some other method of physical training such as calisthenics. Daily Princetonian