Word: appealed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...negro vote is suppressed. (a) It is natural that it should be suppressed. (b) It is in fact suppressed:- Appeal to Caesar, pp 68-87; Forum. Dec, 1887, Vol. 4, No. 4. pp 376-387; N. A. Rev., March 1879, Vol. 128, pp 227, 242, 282; Contemp. Rev. Vol. 53, pp 443; Cable's Silent South passim...
Best general references: Tourgee's Appeal to Caesar; United States Constitution...
...calls made upon them by their college and class organizations. A short time ago freshmen with good voices were asked to try for the 'varsity glee club. Either from an inherent modesty or from pure laziness and selfishness, but very few freshmen paid any attention to the the appeal. Now a freshman banjo club is in progress of formation and the members of '92 still persist in refusing to bestir themselves. Class feeling and class pride, in so far as to equal if not excel the record of preceding classes, whether in athletics, literary work or musical or social organizations...
...might well cause the reader to cry out in astonishment. He generalizes unfairly from the actions of a very few men. He speaks of the general extravagance of the social clubs of the college; he charges college men with ungentlemanly conduct in the cars and on the streets. We appeal to all who have had experience in the management of college societies, or who have had the opportunity to observe the habits of students generally to support us in our denials of the right of this writer to make such assertions...
...than on this team. We call upon all men who care at all for our lacrosse honors to go out and play the rest of the fall. Freshmen especially should try the game. Who knows what new material may be developel? And if men cannot be aroused by an appeal to their patriotism, perhaps the promise of a healthful exercise and a fine game may offer an attraction...