Word: appealed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Francisco, and a millionaire in his own name. Shortly after coming of age, he became interested in the gas company of San Francisco. Upon looking into its affairs, he found it corrupt in its relations with the city council and its own shareholders. The latter in answer to an appeal from Mr. Spreckels, threw out the old board of directors and elected his reform ticket. As president of the First National Bank of San Francisco, he saw and studied finance and politics from the inside...
...made many pleas and leaders of the Senior class of this year have dilated publicly, but with little effect on the desirability of living in the College Yard. The Committee on Yard Accommodations has postponed closing the time of applications until January 30, and has issued a final appeal...
...this is a time of storm and stress--an age of academic read-justment and reform. The new policies as to college work have gone into effect. They should result in stimulating a wider culture and a higher efficiency. If the word culture does not, the word efficiency must appeal to every young American. And every Harvard undergraduate should ponder well the demonstrated fact that without the attainment of the requisite power over intellectual problems by concentrated work, he can hardly expect to reach high place in after life. It does not make so much difference, as the statistics from...
...changes in opinion which are being disclosed, so that they, being convinced, may tell their juniors that they wish that things had been presented to them in this light when they were undergraduates; but after all it is the undergraduate who can profit personally by the new appeal for a fundamental change in the attitude of the average undergraduate toward his college work. In the last generation the opportunities for study in Harvard were enormously multiplied; the curriculum was enriched by so many courses taught in such enlightening ways that it was believed that the attraction of this new program...
...third reason should appeal especially to Seniors. Never has the class of 1911 won the football championship, either of whole College or of the three upper classes. This indeed is not an enviable record, especially so as the Seniors are not backward in supplying material for the University teams. There are in the class athletes who can form a winning team if they will only come out and practice faithfully. The Seniors should begin work at once to win for 1911 at least one football championship...