Word: seek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...modern world, and when a great big handsome president of a great big handsome university goes revolutionary, it is time to sit up and take notice. [He] is proposing a little island of socialism in a capitalistic country. ... A university, he says, is a 'consecrated community' [to] seek the salvation of men's minds. [Hutchins] wants to free professors from the pressure to pursue mink coats for their wives, or for somebody else's wives, and assure them a modest competence based on need...
...states have set up such experimental guidance centers for veterans. State governments provide blueprints, suggestions, facilities for training counselors. But operation is always local: communities and local groups appropriate funds, choose the controlling boards and personnel, both professional and volunteer. The U.S. Office of Education will study the experiments, seek to perfect formulas applicable all over the country...
...Louis the city's 18 Presbyterian churches chose for their local moderator (highest office) the Rev. Alexander Hamilton Johnson, Alabama-born Negro pastor of small, spic & span McPheeters Presbyterian Church. Said Mr. Johnson: "I would rather not have had it. I did not seek it. I would rather seek humility...
Said he to Canada's Periodical Press Association: ". . . Merely because of an accident of geography, population and language we are up against a problem shared by no other nation of comparable size and importance. ... I do not think we should seek to keep the ideas of any other country out of this country. But I do think at the same time that we have a right-to insist that our own ideas be placed before our own people. ... I think those of us who are interested in the assurance of adequate channels of domestic information have ... a right...
...same time, Chief "Crash" Davis will field is B team against an all-star team from the ASTP unit here. They will seek to make up for last week's 7-3 defeat administered by Andover Academy...