Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...response to an appeal from President Roosevelt in the public press and to direct appeals from Harvard men and other foreign residents in Japan, the Harvard Mission has undertaken to raise by general subscription in the University a substantial sum of money toward the fund for relieving the famine in the north of Japan...
Professor Newcomb emphasized the great need for fixed principles in the science of economics, to which one may appeal for support in economic theories just as one appeals to the facts and formulas of physics in arguing its theorems. In the broadest sense economics is a system through which the want of the people are satisfied. Its operation is not governed by blind force, as some people suppose, but by individual with at every stage. Its purpose is the production and distribution of wealth--the transformation of one form of wealth into another until an object is finally produced...
...Groton School, spoke on "Football," and Professor Hanus read a paper on the same subject by W. T. Reid, Jr., '01, who was unable to attend. Dr. Nichols in his speech enumerated the advantages and disadvantages of the present game of football, and Coach Reid made a strong appeal for honesty and fair play in athletics...
...performance which, under the auspices of the Deutscher Verein of Harvard University, will be given at the Colonial Theatre on the afternoon of February 27, should appeal to the College community for more reasons than one. In the first place, Harvard University will, at last semi-officially, contribute by this performance to the celebration of the silver wedding of the German Emperor--an appropriate and graceful thing to do, especially in view of what the Emperor has done for Harvard University. Secondly, this will be the fifth time that Mr. Heinrich Conried, entirely at his own expense and with...
Trial of the plan at Harvard has been delayed until the present time, in order to make it possible to offer new courses which should be cheaper, of more convenient length, and better calculated to appeal to Harvard men than any already existing...