Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...always act in pursuit of pleasure...
...both parties, he plainly favored the party of Balmaceda and expected its triumph. Feeling against the congressional party was shown when they attempted to ship arms from a Californian port on the Itata. However unauthorized this act may have been, the sending of a United States cruiser in pursuit upon the high seas was equally unauthorized...
...find there is back of all phenomena, understanding and intelligence and unless we try to find more about these we are not possessed with the true spirit of science nor has anyone of us the clue of life, who does not look at it from these three views: pursuit of the invisible; belief that it can be found; and desire to find it out for the good of humanity. Every profession is a religious profession if it is rightfully understood, but otherwise it is not, and no one sees his business in the true light unless he sees...
...stimulate materially the general industry of the undergraduates and to increase the quantity and improve the quality of the work done by them, to create an unusual intellectual fellowship between instructors and students, and to encourage the operation of high motives and broad considerations in the selection and pursuit of their studies in common...
...labor limoe and the purgation from immaterialities of ornament or fac, and the putting of what we ought to say in the purest, simplest, and permanent form, - these are what our literature must have, and these are not qualities to be cultivated on the daily press. Of no pursuit can it be said more justly than of literature, that 'culture corrects the theory of success...