Word: appealed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...base-ball association having made arrangements for a reception and concert complimentary to the Princetion nine, would appeal to the students to prevent and suppress any demonstration contrary to the published regulations of the faculty. It is especially requested that no bombs, rockets or crackers be used, as their use will seriously embarrass the association and interfere with the arrangements...
...government at Harvard. They expressed a willingness to leave the entire subject to the students, if it could be checked in that way. The students were unanimous in deprecating a resort to forcible measures by the faculty, or the abolition of inter-collegiate sports. They strongly urged an appeal to the better sentiments of the entire body of students, and the government of celebrations by organized methods on the part of the students...
...board of paths, rather than to take a few extra steps and have a nice lawn of grass. Such a method of preventing the destruction of the beauty of the yard would be far more agreeable than the one which the college has at last resorted to, and would appeal, if not more strongly at least more pleas-antly, to the consciences of the pathmakers...
...published before a much larger number of readers. A monthly might possibly be started with only 150 subscribers. The largest number it would expect the first year would be, say, 200. (This is a liberal estimate, considering that the Lampoon has very few, if any, more, after a strong appeal to the college). If a new Monthly could get 300 subscribers, the "Advocate," doing the same work and as much of it, could add, say 100 to its present list of 425. That is, the Monthly would have not more than 300; the "Advocate," if it did the work instead...
...rule express great contempt for their opponents, the protectionists, and smile in a pitying way at the follies and mistaken theories of the protectionists, often prefacing their remarks with the observation that really educated men can not possibly believe in protection. The protectionists, on the other hand, appeal to the tender side of their hearers' nature, and tell pitiful tales of the wretched condition of the Irish peasantry, and the natives of India,-all caused, as they say, by the introduction of free trade. When they turn their attention to this country, both fall into the same error. The protectionists...