Word: sought
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...important caution there is, however. Let no young man limit his hopes of usefulness to the obtaining of office. Office is indeed "vantage and commanding ground," and therefore to be desired and sought for with reasonable zeal; but the ruinous effects of an exclusive struggle to gain it have been advertised forever in the life of Lord Bacon...
Loathed greatness, I ne'er sought...
With slow and feeble step, and sought the strand...
...sought each morn and slowly passing...
...admitted into clubs and societies to the exclusion of others who, when weighed by real merit, would be more entitled to the privilege and honor. There is far too much of this politic seeking for popularity in college; the methods are many, and the results various. Popularity which is sought after and courted is a dangerous thing, and though it may bewilder for the moment, like the ignis fatui, it leads on in a sort of shadow dance without any culminating force. Your popular, because politic, man in college seldom becomes the really popular and praiseworthy citizen, the beloved minister...