Word: plea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Generalship in argument and rebuttal" is indeed a strong factor in deciding a debate; but under the plea that the unaided planning of the generalship in the argument might be misdirected effort, faculty coaches might well arrange the tactics of the debate. The rebuttal speeches are still, fortunately, dependent wholly on the forensic ability of the speakers and are the one thing that saves the debates from being cut-and-dried affairs in which "educational" coaching has rendered the individual ability of the debaters of little account...
...first number of the Nassau Literary Magazine under the management of the '97 board has just appeared. The number is on the whole a most creditable one and presages a favorable future for the magazine under the present board. In the editorial columns there is a strong plea for better quarters for the literary publications of the college which expresses a confessed need and is very timely...
...Donald's sermon was an earnest plea for the need of believing in the power of Jesus; that men through such a belief might become living examples that nearness to Christ is nearness to God. The early Christians who were with Christ when he raised Lazarus from the dead saw then that what He taught was true, and thenceforth they were willing to bear record for Him. So today what society needs is men and women who shall follow Christ's teachings, and through their influence and example lead others to follow...
After showing the other important measurements and their relations, Doctor Sargent illustrated by the stereoption various types of physical development and closed with a plea for the introduction of athletic requirements into the college curriculum...
...nothing else, and there has been no stint of outspoken criticism. Unless Mr. Roosevelt has it also on hand to go on and shut up the press, the pulpit, the market-place and the clubs it can hardly be worth his while to begin with muzzling this University. The plea that the government, right or wrong, must be supported is wholly out of place in this juncture. There are, of course, crises when the nation is engaged in a struggle from which it can not retreat, and then the paramount duty to save the country properly silences private doubts...