Word: seeks
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...will remember, by the discussion which followed the reading, at a meeting of that club, of Mr. Lawton's "Homeric Girl," afterwards published in the Atlantic. Professor Palmer argues that the dactylic metre is one inconsistent with the nature of the English language. When we translate Homer we unconsciously seek simple Anglo Saxon words and these are rarely dactylic. The author argues the superiority of rythmic prose and gives an example by a translation of his own from the twenty-third book of the Odyssey...
...every reason to believe that the purpose of the universe is in some way bound up in the action of the soul under the dictates of conscience. If therefore, we would further this purpose, if we would put ourselves in harmony with the Almighty, we must live purely and seek righteousness in all things...
...choir sang very acceptably the following anthems: "God save of Fatherland," by Hopkins; "Seek ye the Lord," Roberts; and "Sun of my Soul." Through the kindness of Mr. Locke, the musical parts of the exercises are varied each week by the introduction of a soloist. Yesterday afternoon Mr. J. C. Bartlett of Boston sang the solos very creditably...
...have in her possession written acknowledgements of the superiority of her oarsmen over those of Yale and Harvard, will certainly not continue to browbeat her inferiors, and try to force a match race on the small boys of New Haven and Cambridge. Undoubtedly the superior oarsmen of Cornell will seek races with their equals if such can be found...
...fourteenth to the twenty-second verses of the third chapter of Revelations, in which the angel of Laodicea is rebuked for being neither hot nor cold. He showed how this passage is a warning to all that are at ease, and say "I need nothing." We must always seek something greater and fuller, always stive for nobler things, and finally, when we have come to deserve God, He will come to us. We should find some task which human powers have failed to do, and which can only be done by divine power, and then by setting to work upon...