Word: appealed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Prof. Charles Eliot Norton and W. D. Howells make a joint appeal in behalf of the Armenian monastery of San Lazzaro at Venice, burned to the ground last summer. It was devoted exclusively to the education of young Armenians and the spread of Armenian literature...
...short of impressing the public with a sense of his philantrophy and worth is neglected. The regular campaign consists of canvassing, speaking and paying. Canvassing and personal solicitation of votes is going out of date owing to the great size of the constituencies, which renders it impossible. Speaking appeals directly to the heart of the average English voter and is the most popular campaign method. In the disbursement of his cash the candidate is assisted by an agent, who keeps strict account of every item, and at the close of the campaign is compelled by law to make a sworn...
...Harvard. We would counsel all the students to be calm and reasonable, but none the less we would advise some immediate concerted action on their part, if only to show the drift of their opinion. We believe that the best thing to be done under the circumstances is to appeal to the faculty, and if they uphold the committee then to appeal to the corporation, and if this is in vain,-then our last resource is to make an appeal to the graduates...
...Correspondence University" has before it a wide field of usefulness, and its objects must appeal to the sympathies of all friends of education. Its idea is certainly novel and suggestive,-suggestive perhaps of other functions of a similar nature which it does not yet undertake. There are many courses given each year in our best American colleges of nearly parallel scope, on subjects the same or closely connected. In many of these, especially in the higher courses, a certain amount of original work and of independent investigation is undertaken by professors and students in fields comparatively unexplored. As yet there...
...among Harvard students a large class of earnest Christian men, accustomed to religious work at home and finding some especial religious work at college necessary to make their life at Harvard complete. For such men the Society of Christian Brethren was founded, and to such men I wish to appeal in behalf of the society. All the members of the university are cordially invited to attend our meetings...