Word: quest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Topics of the Day" presents some interesting facts concerning the library. The data show not only that at Harvard some serious work is done which may make the disciples of "Aleck Quest" open their eyes, but that there is a vast difference between the use made of the books here and at Yale...
...following article, which appeared in the March number of Our Day, in reply to Aleck Quest's "Fast Set at Harvard," was written by a recent graduate of Harvard, who, as he himself says, had every opportunity to know the facts...
...almost entire freedom from restraint at Harvard, and the prestige of Harvard connections, have attracted a large number of social and worldly papillons from New York and Chicago society, whose lavish expenditures and dissolute living are no torious. Nevertheless, Cambridge is not a Capua or a Corinth, as Aleck Quest seems to paint it. Per contry, the moral tone of the students as a whole will bear comparison with that of any other body of students, with that of any other body of students, while in intellectual matters the ferment of thought and study is far more fruitful and vigorous...
...atmosphere. But, after I had spent a half year at Harvard, during which time I made its moral and religious tone a study, I concluded that the fears of my friends were unfounded, and, furthermore, that their ideas had been distorted by such articles as the one written by Quest for the North American Review. Unwilling, however, to rest the matter on my own experience, I interviewed several graduate divinity students, all of whom I found agreed with me. Among the students in the philosophical department, I met Mr. Delabarre, who, independently of me, had been looking into this subject...
...Quest, who umpired the New York-Chicago ball games on Monday, had to be taken to his hotel under police protection, - Yale News...