Word: seeks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...temper of the day suggests the first opportunity. In the prevalent spirit of scorn for old prejudices and of aspiration toward unadulterated truth, the student can do what no earlier epoch of classical criticism has generally and consciously essayed: he can apply himself to the privilege of discrimination and seek to arrive at an ultimate valuation of the different works of ancient literature. The moment has at last come when we may disembarass the Classics of the glamour that the humanistic enthusiasm of the Renaissance cast over all things ancient, good or bad, and when we may hope to view...
...interpret the Classics to our contemporaries in contemporary terms, to demonstrate their perennial vitality by showing their relation to modern problems and fashions. We may not be willing, like the English scholar, to reduce the Greek religion to a set of anthropological phenomena, but we may seek to illuminate such modern governmental tendencies as socialism by the light of Plato's Republic and the Spartan system...
...seek your execution...
...great military and naval power, it is necessary that we state definitely our intention of maintaining equal trade rights for all nations with regard to the Western Hemisphere. Moreover, in order to protect ourselves against concerted attack, we must definitely affiliate ourselves with other powers, but we must seek, in this respect, not so much "entangling alliances" as a universal league of the nations...
Regarding the rumor that Yale might seek Dr. Sharpe, Mr. Kent said...