Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...important step in its advance, and is the beginning of a wider scheme which was prepared some time ago by Professor Hanus, but which cannot mature, probably for some years. One of these circulars outlines the growth of the Educational Department at Harvard and the other contains an appeal from the committee which was formed for the collection of funds. Their circular briefly states that the department is prevented from doing its best work on account of the lack of such a library; speaks of the necessity of the best kind of training for men who will leave the University...
...following clubs and societies have responded to the appeal, which was circulated by the Library Committee of the Harvard Union, asking for gifts to the library: University Debating Club, Porcellian, Signet, Digamma, Delta Upsilon, Harvard Memorial Society, Kalumet Club, Harvard Lampoon, Harvard Law Review, Harvard Engineering Society, A. D., Delta Phi, Alpha Delta...
...unusually small outlay, and the managers of the school are doing their utmost to secure the necessary sum. One or two thousand dollars would secure results of great value, but because of the straitened condition of the School's finances, even this small sum must be secured by appeal to interested persons...
...South End House of Boston makes an appeal through the Student Volunteer Committee for any bicycles which the members of the University are discarding because of damage. A fresh air club is being organized for the purpose of encouraging the boys of the South End to spend their leisure hours in the suburbs of Boston. To insure the success of this club, a dozen wheels are needed. The South End House will send for and repair any wheels which Harvard men may be willing to give...
...very great assistance to those of us who are interested in teaching undergraduates to present their ideas orally to the general public with clearness and force, who are interested in the forms of public discourse, for intercollegiate debating offers just that idea of tussle, wrestle and fight which appeal to a youth's imagination. The great advantage in this careful study of rebuttal is, not that a youth learns to think thoroughly and independently, though he does gain this power through it, but that be come by to realize that in almost all questions of the day the other...