Word: seeker
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Thomas B. Wanamaker, of Philadelphia, not the seeker for a cabinet place, has promised to Princeton College a fund for the establishment of a prize in the English department to be known as the "Thomas B. Wanamaker English Language Prize...
...third motive of knowledge is the attempt to satisfy the intellectual appetite. Still even this motive cannot be wholly approved, since it is selfish and tends to destroy the balance and evenness of physical development. There is yet another motive-to extend the boundaries of knowledge by the truth-seeker, but this cannot be the right aim since the object truth is unattainable and it is not right for us to try to find what we cannot reach. Truth is unattainable because what we do know as certain compared to what we do not know is insignificant...
...first element in Yale life is a certain large minded and fair minded love of truth. Lux et veritas is our motto. But in the search after truth there are two tendencies. The seeker for fight, who finds a form of thinking handed down by the fathers, may accept it because of its very antiquity. Progress is the law of the world, let me be free from prejudices of old ideas. These tendencies are inharmonious. But the fair and large-minded man lies between these two. The man who follows that is a creature of hope and remembrance. He does...
...discussion has been taken up indicates "an earnest desire on the part of many students to rid college life of all underhanded methods and thereby render impossible the slurs cast upon us by outsiders, and to place the college student in his true position, that of a conscientious seeker after an education that has meaning in it"; and we also endorse his assertion that "this agitation does not indicate, as some public papers have inferred, that cribbing is present in an alarming degree at Harvard." That "the manliness evident in all departments of college life and the maturity of Harvard...
...examinations and theme work, is indicative of an earnest desire on the part of many students to rid college life of all underhanded methods to render impossible the slurs cast upon us by outsiders, and to place the college student in his true position that of a conscientious seeker after an education that has meaning in it. This agitation does not indicate as some public papers have inferred, that cribbing is present to an alarming degree at Harvard. If true comparisons could be made, there can be no doubt that Harvard would be shown to be quite as free from...