Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...spoke of the great changes in that profession. The minister is no longer a performer of rites and ceremonials only, on which his power once lay. He must rest his reputation now on an exposition of the best and clearest literary effort of the best thinkers. Necessarily such an appeal can have little effect on the "less-thinking" part of the population, for whom ceremonial and vestment will always be attractive. In the Protestant Church, however, exhortation and counsel, will keep their place...
This side of a college education, however, does not appeal to business men. To their objections we urge the obviously practical side of a college training. We have in the undergraduate world an end less variety of positions and offices which can be won and used to advantage. Our College papers offer unrealized possibilities for obtaining experience, not only to the man who expects later to enter a journalistic or literary career, but also to the man who expects later to enter a journalistic or literary career, but also to the man who wishes to gain some insight into business...
...first is an amusing comedy, the second is pathetic, the third a broad farce. The reason for the adoption of these three short plays, in the place of the usual long play, was an attempt to appeal to a wider public...
...team showed itself capable of winning an uphill fight, and proved itself deserving of the University's confidence. With such bright prospects for a victory over Yale, the players need only to be impressed with the feeling that the whole University is behind them. We hope that this appeal will be unnecessary, and that the mere announcement of the mass meeting will be sufficient to bring everyone out, for forced and reluctant cheering will never inspire a team to play the best it knows how. We are confident that the meeting tonight will be the occasion of a spontaneous display...
Immediately after a recent lecture by Dr. Grenfell in the Union, a notice was placed in the CRIMSON re-opening an old subscription to endow a Harvard bed in Dr. Grenfell's hospitals in Labrador. The amount raised by this renewed appeal is $76. The amount subscribed after the previous visit of Dr. Grenfell was $636, making the total $712. The amount necessary to endow the bed is $1200. Very truly yours, WALLACE C. SABINE...