Word: quests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quest for knowledge and truth is never-ending. This University must not become a hand-maiden of privilege, the breeding ground of a self-styled intellectual elite. Harvard has a well-defined role to play in the days ahead: to maintain the values which the forces of economic materialism are seeking to wipe off the face of the earth...
Some of the mysteries, Altick admits, have been solved more by chance than by special cunning. Biographer Mason Wade unearthed the Western journals of Francis Parkman by going to the historian's old home in Boston and rummaging through his desk. Usually, however, the scholar's quest takes a good deal more ingenuity...
...taken Europe seven months to reach this notable stage in its quest for unity. At a cabinet meeting in May 1950, France's able Robert Schuman had drawn from his briefcase the dramatic proposal to integrate French and German coal mines and steel mills. More, he said, was at stake than an economic rationalization. His plan would dispel the war-breeding rivalry over the Ruhr's heavy industries, would lay a base for Continental cooperation ("The rallying of European nations requires that the secular opposition of France and Germany be eliminated"). Though the plan bore Schuman...
Despite the Yale undergraduate's quest for prestige, which he earns through participation in varsity sports or success with a respected organization, the response to College activities and athletics is mostly stronger than the enthusiasm for the same things in the Harvard Houses. College intramural sports have scarcely any trouble raising a full roster and occasionally draw good crowds. College dramatic efforts once or twice a year elicit vigorous interest. Several masters judged these activities particularly valuable because they introduced students to "work for work's sake" rather than work for the sake of being a big shot. French...
...does the Ka Leo O Hawaii, which lashed out at a sophomore planning committee for cancelling the annual frosh field day. The cancellation was a "serious blow," said the Ka Leo. "The sophomore committee has unmistakably fumbled the most important stepping stone of the freshmen in their quest of a well-rounded college education...