Word: appealed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...appeal for the aid of overseas service men in connection with the coming Victory Liberty Loan Campaign, should find a response among returned officers and men at the University. It seems that flat-cars covered with captured German trophies are to be sent about the country, and voluntary speakers are to accompany the cars whenever possible, and tell their overseas experiences to the crowds at towns and junctions. Other speakers are to serve as Four Minute Men in theatres and movie-halls...
...educational value to the nation at large of the recent debate between Senator Lodge and President Lowell has proved even greater than was anticipated; previous discussions, with few exceptions did not appeal to the man in the street as practical; but everyone who heard or read the speeches delivered in Symphony Hall was able to grasp without difficulty the fundamental issues at stake. Although the attitudes of the speakers were not diametrically opposed there was considerable difference in the views expressed. We agree strongly with the position taken by President Lowell, and, as far as can be ascertained, the same...
...only too sad a fact to be denied that a college diploma and law school certificate will not insure the legal profession against crooks. Hence the raising of educational standards would not dispell the universal suspicion of the profession. But there is one thing that will always appeal to the man who does not stop to reason. Offer to give him something for nothing and you will at once gain his confidence. It is in this way that free legal aid is going to serve the double purpose of purging the profession of its taint, and at the same time...
Every college has what are generally known as "snap courses." But it is not right to assume that all of them are easy ...... It may very well be that these courses appeal to men for the simple reason that the teacher knows how to make them appealing. Put the same work in the hands of an incompetent and inexperienced instructor,...... and it will no longer be identified with the name of "snap course." It will immediately become an uninteresting course, and over it the undergraduate will hoist the red flag of danger as a warning to his unsuspecting fellows. --Boston...
...Since the outbreak of hostilities, I have made five different journeys to the warring countries and where ever I went I learned that it was to American college men that the European countries, depleted by war, appeal for leaders at this time...