Word: appealed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...some of the poorer students frequently offer their tickets for sale at such public places that very undesirable persons are enabled to obtain admission. This year, therefore, the present committee are taking active measures to make the day as much of a college day as possible, and so they appeal to the members of the class to restrict the sale of tickets to their classmates, or at least to college...
Harper's Weekly thus speaks of the Harvard Law School: "The friends of the Harvard Law School are moving to increase the endowment of that institution, and those who reside in New York make a strong appeal not only to Harvard graduates, but to the well-disposed munificent everywhere who know that one of the very best ways of giving is to strengthen strong and admirable institutions. Within a few years the Harvard Law School has striven with great success to raise the standard of professional education. But to do this effectively the force of teachers must be increased, while...
...appeal of the Longfellow Memorial Association for aid in erecting a suitable memorial to the dead poet in Cambridge, should meet with generous support from Harvard men. It is peculiarly fitting that they should do their full share in promoting the scheme. The memorial proposed is to be erected in Cambridge; the project is backed by the names of many of Harvard's most eminent graduates and professors, and finally Mr. Longfellow was at one time formally connected with the college as a teacher. We have no doubt the appeal will meet with a ready response from Harvard's present...
...secretary of war having declined to send a team from the army to shoot at Creedmore, the National Rifle Association has voted to appeal direct to President Arthur in the matter...
...implored, by turns, to vanquish Yale, but all to no purpose. Something must be done, and that before the coming game. Why not make the admission of the freshman class to the tree on class day conditional on their defeat of Yale? When all other means fail, a direct appeal to their own interest like this may perhaps affect them...