Word: seeker
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...What are votive offerings?" inquired the young seeker-after-knowledge; and all conversation was stopped until the sacrificial rites of the ancients were explained...
These and many other customs of which the book treats all tend to show that the student of the fourth century had about as jolly a time as does the present seeker after knowledge...
...REMEMBER last year writing "a few remarks" in answer to the question why I came to college. The answer, though spread over the traditional three pages, was, briefly, culture. Little did I then know the difficulties which lay in the path of the earnest seeker, and it was with a light heart that I set about finding some good foundation on which to build the superstructure of my projected education in Esthetics...