Word: seeks
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...place of the national government is not that of supplying funds in large amounts for carrying on the administrative functions of education in the communities, but to develop methods, ideals, and procedures and to present them, to be taken on their merits. . . . The object of those of us who seek the greatest possible advantages for all from education can, it seems to me, be accomplished without disturbing the initiative and responsibility of local and state units of government. . . . A Department of Education similar to the other departments of the government is not required...
...Fundamentally, however, they are partners and not rivals. They share the same scholarly and educational purposes, and seek to contribute to the same nation the same type of trained youth. What is a gain for one such college is also a gain for the other. Loyalty to such a college, being loyalty to the cause which that college shares with others of a like mind, extends itself naturally to these allies and so finds itself renewed and confirmed." Daily Princetonian
Credited with victory and a defeat in two starts, the Crimson Freshman lacrosse team will seek a second triumph in its game with the Springfield College Second Varsity to be played on the field in back of the Business School at 2.30 o'clock this afternoon...
...with a successful author. That is all; yet in its four acts the entire drama of the struggle for expression through the written word is told. The present players do not rise to the play's heights, perhaps, but, on the other hand, they do not seek to make of the play a high-brow holiday...
...Labor charge that the Conservative Government has done little or nothing to solve the unemployment problem. Cried Mr. Churchill: "It is the deliberate view of this Government that unemployment can be reduced normally by a revival of the basic industries. It has been urged that the Government should seek an opportunity for utilizing the national credit for stimulating general trade, and particularly in connection with assisting toward rationalization. Such transactions are far better dealt with in the sphere of regular business than by direct intervention of the state...