Word: quest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Winston Churchill (MacMillan and Co.) may be briefiy described as one of those books which it is hard to lay down until finished. It describes the adventures of a young American author, the Celebrity, who disguised under an incognito, visits a summer resort by the great lakes, in quest of a very charming young woman whom he wishes to marry. Meanwhile the man whose name he has assumed, takes the opportunity to decamp with various embezzled monies. The Celebrity accordingly falls into some trouble, the police being in hot pursuit and finally escapes to Canada. Intentionally or otherwise, the author...
...institutions is not to prepare a man to fight the battle of life, and come out well endowed with this world's goods, but to cultivate the mind and raise the plane of civilization. A great university stands for truth. Here the scholar is met who has a real quest in life, from which he will turn for nothing. The scholar is the man who buys the truth and sells it not. No price is too great if only the truth is obtained, and no reward is asked...
Since in its entirety truth is personal, the quest for character is the search for truth. He who holds himself above all baseness and seeks for all that is good, is a searcher for truth. The ultimate truth in which the endeavor of the world finds its fullest and best expression is the truth of character...
Robert P. Utter '98 contributes the first-page story, "A Bootless Quest," to the current number of the Youths' Companion...
...announcement of contributors to the Youth's Companion for 1896 is noted a story entitled, "A Bootless Quest," by Robert P. Utter...