Word: seek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great share of the interest, as do the Harvard book prizes, awards of books by Harvard men or staff members to outstanding secondary school students across the country. The book prizes also put the University in direct contact with secondary school students allowing members of the faculty to seek out and watch the progress of prospective Freshmen. Other club activities show even more the serious nature of the work of the alumni. Little of the rollicking comradery of the usual "old-grad" gathering is present at the meetings of Harvard Clubs. Discussion, symposia and lectures dealing with topics of current...
...second report will be done in co-operation with the Graduate School Advisory Council, and will seek to coordinate policies now in force covering credit given undergraduate or graduate members of the University for work in a foreign university. Cater said he hoped to promote the practicability of students here going abroad, studying and receiving credit for one or two terms' work...
Sneered the Soviet news agency, Tass: "[New York papers] seek to present the attack as usual for the New York way of life. However . . . the attempt was of a political character. . . ." Snarled Ukrainian Chief Delegate Dmitri Manuilsky: "Political banditry. . . . If the authorities cannot protect us, either it will be necessary to have our own agents . . . or maybe to pay income tax to somebody like Al Capone for protection. . . ." In a bristly letter to Secretary of State Byrnes, Manuilsky charged a "premeditated attempt" on the two men's lives...
...hope will aid my hearers." When he finished, there was a moment or two of silence, then a benediction. His topic: "Unfairness." Some of his thoughts: "Quiet thinking and meditation are necessary so that our minds can meet and get strength to meet the tasks ahead. . . . People must seek peace and courage in God. . . . n the words 'Love God and love your neighbor,' we have the power of peace, tranquillity, courage and inspiration...
...Seek & Search. Iva Kitchell has nothing against any school of dancing ("I just think there's something completely ridiculous about anything that's too serious"). In one dance (called Oriental Dance by an Occidental Girl) she flips her fingers and toes and picks up a handkerchief with her teeth. But she shines in Soul in Search, satirizing the Dark Meadows dance in which Martha Graham rolls herself up in a black cloth which seems to symbolize the labyrinths of a frustrated libido. As Iva Kitchell, hopelessly mired in yards of purple muslin, thrashes about on the floor...