Word: plea
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...well aware of the fact that there are many men who get learning at college without culture, and that there are many men outside of the colleges who have, with comparatively little accurate learning, a great deal of valuable culture." Without pretending to urge the "sweetness and light" plea, an intimate relation with the short-comings of college life leads us to inquire into the reasons of the fact above quoted. Strange and incredible as it may seem, there are men in good standing in Harvard college who have never entered the library. A large college like Harvard must necessarily...
Last evening, Dr. H. P. Bowditch, dean of the medical faculty, lectured on the Advancement of Medicine by Research, to an audience filling the small hall in the Divinity building. His lecture was a plea in behalf of research by means of experiments on animals. He spoke of pain being a subjective sensation and relative in value. In animals which are dull in sensibility compared with man the sensation of pain is comparatively less. Many of the actions and cries which they make are out of proportion to the pain they bear, and are consequently misleading. The whole question...
...tenure of courts came up, the lateness of the season was urged against any radical change. Men had already gone to considerable expense in rolling and marking out their courts, and any material change in the existing state of affairs would be unfair to them. The justice of this plea was recognized and in the desire to observe the rights of individuals the rights of the body of tennis players were left to a considerable degree uncared for. This year, however, the case is very different, while last year the number of tennis players in college was not largely...
...heritage from the old idea that to become a good merchant a boy must not go to college, but begin by sweeping out the store. We give little enough time for preparation as it is, without college authority for the forcing process. It is of course alleged, as the plea for these elective studies, that they are intended to prevent forcing, to save the student from attempting many things he cannot do, that he may do well the one thing he chooses to do. But this is at once a surrender of the principle of general education, a confession that...
Then after a plea that the colleges should not increase the "noble army of smatterers" he goes on to discuss the question of college government in the following terms: "The plan of the college is of great importance; but of still greater importance, practically, is the question of its theory and methods in its relations with students, their discipline in conduct and study. There are two opposing systems. The one considers the student still a boy, hedges him about with close paternal government, stimulates him with merit-marks for successful study, and punishes him with demerits for ill-conduct; ranks...