Word: seeks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...influence of a girl and who relapses when she marries another man; the shorter, "Mary Hunters' Chair" by G. P. Davis, cleverly indicates the romance of two middleaged people as perceived by their children. C. G. Hoffman's "Yesterday" is one of those nondescript pieces of prose which seek to describe an atmosphere and a mood, but which, in spite of labored though sometimes felicitous phrasing, leave no mark on the mind...
...infinite is not a concrete thing which man can acquire and add to his possessions; he can never find Brahma, for Brahma himself is everywhere; what he must do is to free himself from the confinement of the life of the self and by daily worship seek not to acquire God but to surrender himself...
...Union is another step towards making that building the great centre of University activities. Already six of the Territorial Clubs have decided to make the Assembly Room their permanent headquarters, and we believe that when the other clubs learn of the plan they will quickly appreciate and seek its advantages. In their new home, the Territorial Clubs may offer more than an occasional "Smoker," bromidic speeches, and hard-bottomed Winsor chairs. The success of the plan should result in the formation of new Territorial Clubs and the extension of their influence under the system which has been developed during...
...been a personal friend and an occasional guest of Dr. Walker from whose lips I heard the prediction that "some time a commodious building would be donated to Harvard College as a Social Centre for all students, and instructors, and officers, and resident or visiting graduates, wherein everybody would seek to know everybody through informal and friendly conversations without regard to age, or class, or title, or vocational position...
...longer make rules to prohibit the undergraduate from doing what he most desires but we look to him to form high and noble traditions. If you are here to seek pleasure you are in the wrong place. Pleasure is a by-product and has never been found by merely pursuing it. You are here for a far more serious purpose; to qualify yourself and others for a life work. Get into contact with men and find something in common with them. Avoid mediocrity in all things like poison and strive always to break records, not records of others but your...