Word: plea
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...could, if he so chose, take first in any other department, whether of science or literature. Prof. Packard, referring to Charles Francis Adams, Jr., and Lord Coleridge, said : "I am willing to place the judge against the advocate, the decision of one thoroughly acquainted with the classics against the plea of one who acknowledges himself unfamiliar with them." Dr. Murray, dean of the college and professor of English literature, said that as one who had had the superintendency of the college essays of both classical and scientific students for eight years, as he had had, he could not help noting...
...than shouklst design to harken To my plea...
...were liable to acquire a bad system of rowing, so that it would afterwards be harder to teach them the Harvard stroke than it would if they had known absolutely nothing about rowing. The Exonian, in mentioning a way for removing this objection, appeals indirectly to Harvard, and its plea deserves to be presented and considered. Three years ago a Harvard man undertook to teach the Exeter students the Harvard stroke, but we are under the impression that his efforts were not rewarded with sufficient results on the part of the Exeter students. We are sure that several men could...
...Sundays. Theoretically each student reports her own absence; practically the presence or absence of students other than seniors is noted by teachers distributed through the congregation. Excuses from these exercises may be obtained from the resident physician on health grounds, in rare cases from the lady principal on the plea of great inconvenience. Seniors may absent themselves at discretion, merely reporting that they did so on a given date...
...March Century will contain a plea by Mrs. Runkle for the higher education of women, with special reference to the recent movement toward admitting women to Columbia College...