Word: appealed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...join in a worship which Dr. Hale declares, for form as observed in Appleton Chapel, has not its superior upon the face of the earth. Every member of the University should feel called upon to see to it that the methods of his Alma Mater shall prove successful. This appeal, however, is directed more particularly to the members of the Law School. They, many of them at least, live among us and enjoy all the privileges which are open to the members of the college, the only reason why they do not attend Chapel is without question because the custom...
...Yale letter in our columns today brings pleasant echoes of our anniversary time. The editorial referred to, which appeared in the Courant, was an appeal for a more liberal tone in the Sunday services. It says that "the little benefit derived from the service is generally acknowledged," and that if they are fed on the dry husks of religious conventionalism, they can hardly be expected to develope practical Christianity...
Money should either be taken from the class treasury to present them with cups, or an appeal be made to the class which would certainly respond heartily to such a call...
...nasal, and the thought which the voice should convey to the ear is utterly lost. Again, the speaker denies by his gestures what he has already said in words; he means to affirm, and he shakes his head violently as in negation, or he repels when he means to appeal, - or again, he has not learned the value of repose, and he keeps his hands and head going till you are worn out with the very sight of his ineffectual labor to have you seize what he says. These are common faults and are met with constantly, and they...
...that which assembled to hear Canon Farrar, was gathered in the chapel, showed that the students were eager to receive the new plan for religious worship. The noble words of Phillips Brooks - "We now give you religion, with the only foreign element which it formerly had, removed; we appeal to your humanity to preserve it. We appeal to you as men, not as students" - these words will never be forgotten by those who heard them at the time. It must be gratifying to the men who granted with doubt and fearing the almost unanimous petition of the students...