Word: appealed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first place, a play must be satisfactory to the audience. It must appeal generally to the audience as a whole, and not with especial force to a portion of it. To effect this, the author must deal with sentiments common to the generality of human beings; but in addition must have in view a clearly defined artistic result. In the "machinery" of the action, there must be nothing which shall be meaningless or contrary to the current of sympathies aroused by the play as a whole. The events must be managed in such a way as not to jar even...
...uses and responsibilities of leisure," the subject of Mr. Lodge's lecture this evening, is a subject that is certain to appeal to college men, alike to the active and to the inactive. The subject is specially appropriate for the closing lecture of a course on the professions. The question of spending times of leisure properly and profitably is almost as important as that of finding a vocation and pursuing it successfully. The term "leisure" has come to have two very different meanings. One man of leisure is never idle; another always is. The former makes his leisure...
...yesterday afternoon, but not more than half of the student members were there to meet them. After Professor Palmer had called the meeting to order, the discussion was opened upon the resolution that those students guilty of cribbing should be tried before the Conference Committee, having right, however, to appeal to the faculty in case of verdict of guilty. There were three distinct lines of thought expressed. A number favored the resolution, feeling that it embodied the best method of acting directly on college opinion; that it would stimulate a healthy sentiment which would blot out cribbing by making...
...sense and genuine humanity, would welcome some rules at the gymnasium to limit the time for using a bath-room. But better than rules, however strenuously enforced, would be the general effort of those, who go to the gymnasium, to make the accommodations as widely useful as possible. We appeal to the gymnasium authorities for the rules, and to members of the college for the effort...
...glass is refilled and he has to empty it in face of the whole company. This is considered a great humiliation and amounts to asking everybody's pardon for his behavior. If, however, the "Fuchs" thinks that he has been unjustly called upon for a "Bierjunge," he can appeal to the president. If the latter sees fit he orders the challenger to drain his glass. This performance is loaded with tremendous odium and the men are very careful about challenging a new member without sufficient cause. There is an element of humor and "coziness" combined with a certain amount...