Word: plea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...editorials are pleasant reading. There seems to be a new spirit entered into the Advocate editorials this year and a very delightful - good spirit it is. One reads these editorials - which remark is mightily complimentary - if one only knew it. The plea for a course on music as a fine art is heartily to be endorsed and the words on the horrible condition of things in Memorial must meet with general approbation...
Hutchins Hapgood writes a short plea for the preservation of the childish simplicity and contemplativeness of all of us, which the college career tends to destroy. He says: "A college course is useful primarily because it helps to retain-by virtue of its emphasizing influence-that element of genius in each man which he may possess; it helps each one of us to retain that simple interest in the world and its beauty, in things unconnected with ends, which may serve to rest and sooth us all through life and may keep for us that unconcern, that charming insouciance, which...
...democratic party. It was his belief, that if this time the republican party should be put down, it would be down for ever. Every democrat should see that this came about. All, he says. rests upon the simple question, as to whether or not a government under any plea whatsoever has a right to levy a tariff for anything but revenue. To the republicans he says this policy means absolutely free trade. This reduction of the tariff to revenue purposes, he says, must of course come gradually...
...interpretation of Scripture, of creed and form. Yet through all these perplexities, which are, after all, side issues, certain fundamental truths stand out in perfect clearness, unobscured by personal feeling. The beautiful relation of Christ to men is one of these truths. The preacher ended with an earnest plea for breadth of view in the great truths and principles which effect all sects and creeds alike...
...Dyke at Appleton Chapel last night made an eloquent plea for the adoption of Christianity. He took his text from Acts V, 42 verse, "And daily in the Temple and in every house they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ...