Word: quested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...percent "sink-or-swim" attitude is the fact that "almost all of our students are accepted at medical schools." This excuse sinks of its own weight, for nobody in the administration has any exact idea of what percent of Harvard pre-meds fall short in the Great Quest. Nobody in the administration knows which students fail to get into medical school, or, what is worse, why they fail. The mistakes, apparently, are buried...
...stool (army, church & Falange) which supports General Franco in power is the Falange. Thirteen years of political stock-jobbery have riddled the Falange like a colander. Recently, seeking American aid, Franco has played down the role of the party that was once his pride & joy. But last week, his quest for money, military aid and international friendship beginning to seem fruitless, Franco decided to build up the Falange again...
...deadly result of this playing by ear has been to frustrate the free world's quest for unity. I mean this in three specific ' senses. We have no single, coherent policy in Asia . . . We have failed to use our influence to the fullest to bring about unity in Western Europe . . . We have failed to achieve real unity of spirit with our allies. The truth is that . . . our relation with them has remained too much that irksome bond which binds debtor and creditor...
...Sidney Hook, New York Times: "No one can doubt the sincerity of his hard-won faith, that he has found in it, after much agony, a healing peace and humility. As a quest for personal salvation, it will command the respect of those who cannot share his cosmic hope and whose natural piety takes other forms . . . The view that man must worship either God or Stalin faces many formidable theoretical difficulties and has the most mischievous practical consequences . . . Deeply religious men speak with the same divided counsels as nonreligious men about the specific problems of war, peace, poverty and foreign...
...seems the least the CRIMSON can do is to carry the daily Pogo comic strip if for no other reason that to offer consolation to those undergraduates arrested." And in the first statement of opinion by a resident of the Annex. "A concerned "Cliffedweller" noted. "There's a quest for coed's panties. From Tufts to M.I.T. But only at fair Harvard. Could two thousand men agree WE GO POGO...