Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...single player is being used to substitute two or more positions. For example, one man is playing substitute guard and fullback while another is placed, as necessity requires, at either tackle, guard, or center. I was told by the head coach that he had inserted in your columns an appeal to the class to brace up and produce more candidates and that, after the notice had been published on three successive days, there was not a single response. Even now he is looking about for new candidates and urging them to come out, and almost begging some members...
...appeal to the college element as such is tinged with no assumption of superiority or feeling of class distinction. We attack the colleges because the colleges through their existing organization and the affection of their alumni offer a definite basis for attack; because, also, we believe that the college man is especially qualified to form an opinion and especially bound to exert an influence in the impending struggle. The coming election will squarely test the capacity of the people of New York to appreciate the benefits of a clean, efficient and disinterested administration. The blessings of good government are felt...
...hits on Memorial Hall are by far the most amusing portion of the paper, and resemble sufficiently the actual state of affairs in the Hall to appeal strongly to those who board there. Small portions of "Baedeker's Harvard" and the "Dictionary of Collegiate Biography" are rather good, but the humor appears forced throughout. "By the Way" is the regular senseless collection of puns, and hardly reaches the usual low standard of that column...
...Adams, '03, "The Everlasting No," Carlyle; R. R. Alexander '04, "Appeal for Dreyfus," Zola; E. W. Baker '04, "The Orator's cause," J. D. Wright; A. A. Ballantine '04, "The Southern Negro," H. W. Grady; P. Bancroft '03, "Lasca," F. Desprez; O. L. Bear '03, "Death of Jeanne d'Arc," Duruy," G. Bettman '03, "National Duties," Roosevelt; R. M. Bowen '03, "National Monument to Washington," R. C. Winthrop; S. Blaikie '03, "Address to New Hampshire Veterans," Roosevelt; W. R. Bowle '04, "The Revenge," Tennyson; H. J. Carleton '03, "The Negro Question," Cleveland; F. W. Catlett '04, "Commencements," Sarah W. Kellog...
...appeal for contributions--very limited in extent--brought an immediate and gratifying response from persons of the highest character, indicative of the estimation in which Mr. Godkin and his work were held; and while the list of contributors included many of Mr. Godkin's friends, it included also many others not in general sympathy with his opinions, greatly enhancing the value of their tribute...