Word: plea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...enables man to seek through introspection to commune with the Eternal Spirit and receive divine illumination. After giving a short account of what the Mysticism has accomplished in past ages, he explains very lucidly the causes which have lessened its power at the present day and makes an earnest plea for this philosophy of the inner, the spirit world. "For it is the Mystics," he says, "who tell us of our deeper, truer, diviner natures, and reveal to us the inner springs of life which are the sources of our power. They lift us out of the whirl of material...
Other articles which Harvard men might enjoy (for we need not mention "Harry's Career at Yale," which, like Pope's snake, "drags its slow length along") are "The Running Broad Jump" by Malcolm W. Ford, and "A Plea for style in Boxing" by Wenona Gilman...
Perhaps the most original bit of prose in the number is "A Plea for the Higher Education of Apparitions." In it there are several bright ideas and humorous turns of thought, the slight plot of the whole hinging on the ignorance which a spirit-visitor displays in not knowing the difference in time between London and New York...
...their best and most representative work. In an article on "The United States Patent System," Mr. James Shepard, a well-known electrical expert, gives an intelligent and comprehensive account of the statutory provisions for patent protection from the day of the first Congress; and he also makes a strong plea for better facilities and a larger staff than have hitherto existed in this much overburdened department of the government. "Where are Vinland and Norumbega?" by Alice L. Clark is an article that will interest all men who have ever paddled a canoe or rowed a boat on the turning...
...relations of our colleges to our professional schools, the failure of the attendance at colleges to keep pace with the growth of population, the increasing efficiency of our secondary schools, etc.,- are met and answered. Professor Macvane's arguments are logically arranged and the whole article is an earnest plea for the existing order of things and against college iconoclasm...