Word: seeking
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...chromos, from the Greek tunic to ready-made clothes, or from the Parthenon to a house with a mansard roof covering nothing, but he took us over it lightly. Not to put up with what masquerades as excellence, not to be content with makeshifts, to know that to seek excellence is natural, and to learn, if only from the living instance before us, that it can be achieved in the things of every-day life, was one of the great lessons which he taught...
...athletic situation; indeed it would almost appear that this none too inspiring topic has found in our midst a congenial place of permanent abode. But the tenor of this editorial is sane and indicious; the writer is sage enough to have observed that in this world they who seek equity must do equity; more apt to be effected through the channels of compromise than through a rigid insistence by one side upon the letter of its claims. Few things are more easy than to persuade men of the absolute justice of their own cause, and to lead them...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences held last evening it was voted that "This Faculty, believing that the present frequency of intercollegiate games is injurious to the scholarly interests of which it has charge, urgently recommends to the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports that it shall seek, by means of agreement with competing colleges, or otherwise, to reduce considerably in the coming year the programs of intercollegiate contests...
...last Vesper service of the year will be held this afternoon at 5 o'clock in Appleton Chapel. Rev. President James G. K. McClure, D. D., of Chicago, will conduct the service, and the following musical selections will be rendered: "Jerusalem" (from Gallia), Gounod; "Seek Him that Maketh the seven Stars." Elgar: "Come Ye Children" (from Oratorio "Prodigal Son"). Sullivan Mr. C. B. Shirley will be the soloist...
...that he has thus far only 'learned to study'; if he combines a desire to learn with a capacity for receiving strong impressions and a real sympathy with the people; if he is willing to wait a long while, and perhaps indefinitely, for wealth, I should advise him to seek political and other useful activity in newspaper work...