Word: plea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Best general references: Summer's What Social Classes Owe Each Other; Mackay's Plea for Liberty. chap 8: Nineteenth Century XIV. p. 925 (Dec. 1883); Nation LII p. 134. (Feb. 12, 1891); Forum XI, 115 (Apr. 1891); Westm. Rev. 121, p. 137. (Jan. 1884); Boston Herald...
Walter Camp has "A Plea for the Wedge in Football," in the current issue of Harper's Weekly...
...Sever 11 last evening Professor Ashley gave a lecture on the study of economic history. He made a plea for an examination of the facts of history as a basis for all economical reasoning He thought that speculation which had only few facts as foundation could not but be mistakeable, and that a wider and deeper knowledge of facts was the one thing needed to set our reasoning aright. Facts are not everything, but they are a great deal, and without them a student has no material with which to do his mental building. It is to the credit...
...their club now for their own amusement, that they will practise and work a whole year only "for fun." The spring concert is the one aim of the clubs all the year, no less for the sum to be given the crew than for its pleasure. Nor is the plea for "consistency" less absurd. Why interfere with a few beneficial and harmless freshman organizations, because others which have no merit to them wish to be formed? It is a poor argument to cry "consistency" in this case. Refuse the new organizations; no one will object to this inconsistency...
Upon the whole then the sweeping tendency of this vote is to be regretted. While the vote may be expedient in one case it is not expedient in the other. The plea that the vote must deal consistently with all clubs, that what is not granted to one should not be to others does not hold good in this case. For, while the Sophomore Theatricals may do no good the freshman. Musical Clubs do. This action is decidedly unfair, and if the vote is rigidly enforced it will kill all freshman musical organizations. In view of the two important arguments...