Word: seeks
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...achievements of the men in the other groups are in some way adjustments to the attitudes, actions, and achievements of the men in the top groups." The study, which most Elis agree is incisively true, divides all students into the wheels, the pseudo-wheels, the ordinary guys (who seek extra-curricular participation as an end in itself), the pushers, the non-entities ("nice guys who don't stand out"), and the outcasts (because of nationality, religion, or sloppy appearance...
Since most Elis have the same values and seek the same goals, they are far less individualistic than their Harvard companions. Some Harvard students haven't seen a class all term; others burn midnight oil. But almost all Yalies hit the middle road. The same comparison holds in politics; there are no "Communist-front" clubs in New Haven. The ideal of all Eli students is a single mythical "Yale Man," the target of almost everyone's aspirations. The Yale Man must be a success and he must be all-round: athletes are not admired unless they are good in other...
Hall was quite frank in admitting that Harvard and Yale alumni were operating nowhere near so efficiently as Princeton's. "Why there are countless boys who wouldn't dream of going to Harvard or Yale--boys who are exactly what the two colleges seek in the way of student-athletes. All the more power to Princeton for attracting these lads...
There was one more question to be put to "Mr. Republican." Would he be a candidate for President in 1952, as he had been twice before? He wouldn't seek it, said...
Last week, a bit weary of running the nation's eighth biggest university, Chancellor Chase, 67, decided to resign "while I can still hope to look forward to some years of freedom." He felt that he had good cause to "seek a rest." By the time he actually retires at the end of the academic year, he will have been head of one major university or another for a stretch of 32 years, a longer tour of duty than that of any other university* president...