Word: pursuitence
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides this desire to improve the academic mind, the action of the University shows that it is guarding the ancient, profound, and typically American respect for the law. The pursuit of happiness is man's inalienable right: to get caught for its obviously unpatriotic...
...fall. Sequestered in the upper reaches of Widener and left to blush unseen in the sterile atmosphere of the special libraries, the Poetry Room has failed to fulfill its high promise. Unfortunately to the difficulties of its location have been added other obstacles which discourage the ordinary mortal in pursuit of his muse...
...this picture arrives when George Arliss, standing on the balcony of his Manhattan apartment, peers down into Central Park with spy glasses applied to his melancholy eyes which, in private life, are aided only by a monocle. Arliss is a celebrated pianist, indignant because deafness has made impractical the pursuit of his art. While cursing the deity and contemplating suicide, he has learned to read lips so adroitly that he can do it with field glasses. Looking into Central Park, he spies out his fiancee who is engaged in amorous colloquy. She is saying that she feels bound...
Harvard will have plenty of company in the pursuit of this policy. Many, perhaps most, of the attempts to define the aims of the American College are in substantial agreement. President Hopkins, of Dartmouth, says its function is that of giving "a perspective on the conditions of life." President Park, of Bryn Mawr, declared to her students: "That the college gives to its best ability an education preparatory to living in its justification, and perhaps its only justification." Again quoting Mr. Lowell: "The object of cultural education is to broaden and deepen the range of thought; that of vocational...
...Harvard senior is in a similar position when he faces the task of choosing his life work. The knowledge of the collegiate senior on his future is as vicarious and inadequate as the information of the preparatory senior in pursuit of his further education. It is to obviate, this difficulty that Harvard has established a Consultant on Careers...