Word: plea
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...allowed so many "absences" as Sophomores and Freshmen. The proportion, as soon as it is determined, will be put on the bulletin board. The aim of these changes is to lessen the number of possible ways of Probation or Suspension, and to leave no occasion for the plea of ignorance of the law. But absences from religious exercises cannot be added to absences from college exercises to occasion any penalty...
...PLEA FOR A FRESHMAN.WHAT right has a Freshman to love...
...Columbia's request Harvard agreed that the degrees C. E. and M. E., given at the Columbia School of Mines, be regarded as equivalent to the degree B. S. given at our Scientific School. Columbia, however, further desired, under plea of inferiority in point of numbers, to include among men eligible for her crew members of the Schools of Law and Medicine who were graduates neither of Columbia nor of any other college. Harvard thought that such an exception to the rule adopted by Yale and herself looked toward including in the crews a class of oarsmen whom...
...select men better qualified to explain their separate subjects than those mentioned above, and one has only to go once and he will continue to go, if he has any real love for literature. If not, perhaps it were better he were not here. It is a common plea that it is impossible to spend so much time and do justice to other subjects; but this is a very feeble excuse; for if one were only to take account of the time he wastes each day, it would be found to be many times more than the one hour spent...
...secure such a change would require a well-signed petition to the Faculty, or some other decided expression of opinion from a majority of the students. To such a plea the Faculty would certainly yield, since this is a matter that concerns the students only...