Word: quests
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...impossible to picture the kind of life with which we would be perfectly satisfied. By Heaven we mean that ultimate end of human endeavor which we hope to be good; it lies beyond death; it is that elusive ideal of which we are forever in quest. Another great question is whether the soul is conscious in after life of its former existence...
...rest of the contents are of good average quality--for candidates. One story, "The End of the Quest," by S. Bowles, Jr., is the kind of tale for which the Advocate was long famous, direct, virile, and with an ending. The tendency towards melodrama one forgives for the sake of the actual interest. Two of the others belong also to well-recognized types: "Jack's Affair with his Conscience" recalling a familiar episode in Mr. Flandreau's book, and "A Symphony in D-Minor" being a variation on the familiar theme of Mr. Owen Wister's "Philosophy 4." The fantastic...
...University from 1878 to 1881, and a public reader of prominence, will read the following selections: "The Ballad of East and West," by Kipling; "Wives in a Social Game," Anonymous; "Mark Antony and the Roman Citizens," from "Julius Caesar," by Shakespere; "The Village Dressmaker," from "Timothy's Quest," by Kate Douglas Wiggin; "Carcassonne," from the French of Nadaud, by M. E. W. Sherwood: "Aunt Doleful's Visit," by Mary Kyle Dallas...
Among his published works are: "Essays on Life and Literature," "Poems and Lyrics," "The Quest of the Simple Life," and "Savonarola, a Drama...
...Massachusetts' as a Dormitory," by K. McLeod '05; "On Relations with the College Office;" "The Counsels of Lampon," by O. Bates '05; "Songs of Sunlight," by H. Hagedorn, Jr., '07; "An Exhibition of Modern Engravings," by T. H. Thomas; "The Ocean Lover," by R. E. Bates '05; "Hilda's Quest," by W. R. Nelles '05; Book Notices...