Word: exhorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...swept with them to shouting triumphs on home waters. Now he led them forth?the bronze-skinned ones?to conquer the oarsmen of the world, as warlike Menelaus led the bronze-greaved Argives against Troy of old. Would his heart and theirs be stout enough? Could he counsel and exhort them to his Nation's glory...
When some eminent statistician first compiled the figures which showed that scholastic success was a continuous process from school and college to professional school and life, he thought, perhaps, that he had solved his problem. No longer would it be necessary for anxious parents and eminent educators to exhort the youth of the land to earnest study. The figures were plain to behold. The stern portals of Phi Beta Kappa would surely now be thronged by a host of eager applicants...
...most effective way of dealing with labor troubles is not to fear them or exhort the laborers to find joy in their work; but to regard them as symptomatic of grave psychological malad justments in our politico economic or dear, and then remove the causes of mal adjustment. CHAIF ANRGOPSKY '23 March...
...then, stop. Turn the flow of searching discourse to the favoritism of the Phi Beta Kappa and the Lampoon; to the advisability of renovating Holyoke House and Apthorp; to a discursive dissertation on the brilliant conversation heard on Massachusetts avenue at yet it is time to stop. Exhort the track team and the crew and all the rest of our paid athletes (cf. "The Pink", of the paper for people who think) to earn their pin-money; advocate the presentation of Macbeth, with the goodies to participate as witches; deplore the lack of interest in the museums, and the great...
...minute. The response to the request that every man in the class have his picture taken and his life blank made out for the Senior Album has not been much better. It is an example of the usual way in which the committees responsible have to plead, prod and exhort the rest of the men to do their part to make class affairs a success...