Word: quests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arbor, Mich, restless with the knowledge that something is agley in undergraduatedom, President Marion LeRoy Burton of Michigan University called to him Robert C. Angell of the Sociology Department. He sent Dr. Angell on a quest. Last week Dr. Angell returned, after talking with many another uneasy educator, and many young men and women, earnest no end and either utterly complacent or badly worried over themselves. Dr. Angell wrote a report: "College is no longer a place for those who wish to become cultured. It is a social prac- tice ground. Men and women come here to make friends...
...moonstruck man, a poet, a mad man, a lovesick lad and a shepherd boy well used to lonely spaces set out with Alvaric then on his second quest, which was a weary one. Elfland had ebbed away, its King being fearful of Alvaric's enchanted sword. But Alvaric could not rest for love of Lirazel, and through long years that crazed company wandered the world's ends...
...flight of 1,000 miles from Reykjavik direct to Ivigtut right across Greenland's icy mountains. In the cruiser Raleigh, however, Rear-Adm. T. P. Magruder searched the southern shores of Greenland for an open space; it was also possible that Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, the Quest, might be used as an icebreaker. There still remained the alternative of breaking the flight from Reykjavik by refueling in the open sea- none too pleasant to contemplate in these rough waters...
Over the sun-parched, hilly Hinsdale links, near Chicago, a company of overheated golfers drove, brassied, mashied their many balls. The mi- rage that led them on was the Western Amateur title. They challenged one another's right to continue the quest and in the end Albert Seckel of Chicago and Harrison R. ("Jim-mie") Johnston of St. Paul played on alone...
...Advancement of Science, soon to meet in Toronto. Dr. Cuthbert Christy, naturalist, explorer, investigator of tropical diseases, has told of his long okapi hunt in a book which will be published in the U. S. -Big Game and Pygmies: Experiences of a Naturalist in Central African Forests in Quest of the Okapi. Necessarily it was a long hunt; one must win the friendship of the Little People, the Pygmies, before one can start to track an okapi. The Pygmies- last remnants of the forest people which Stanley discovered - are suspicious, shoot poisoned arrows. Dr. Christy journeyed to the Ituri Forest...