Word: plea
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Percy MacKaye '97 delivered a forceful and interesting lecture on "The Dramatist as Citizen" in the Union last evening, in which he made an earnest plea for the emancipation of the drama and the dramatist from the chains of commercial bondage...
...welcome to the newly elected President of the University, with suggestions as to the policy he should adopt; but perhaps it will be as well to reserve such suggestions till he shall have taken his seat as president. There will be doubtless a general approval of the editorial plea for the study of poetry as literature; such study, the article properly adds, will not be open to the charge of dilettantism if it rests on a basis of sound philological and historical scholarship. The Advocate hopes to see justice done Poe when the Puritan shall have passed--but why shall...
...superiority of a small college over a large one. The difficulty with this argument is that it is likely not to last, for today Dartmouth is twice as large as Harvard was 40 years ago and just as large as the University of 20 years ago. There is one plea for Dartmouth, however, that cannot be refuted. The exquisite beauty of the surrounding country is sure to have a lasting and invigorating effect on the students of the college...
...omitted. The conception in "The Flower Stall" is good; the poem needs verbal revision. The sonnet entitled "Love and Fate" is worthy of praise for the correctness of its construction, the thought moving steadily and naturally to the culmination, and for the dignity of the language. A vigorous plea ("Yoke-fellows") for loyal service in the cause of the Ideal and a pithy, pleasing love-song ("My Absolute") conclude the poetical material of the number...
...inspirations, and no happier in itself, is Mr. Storer's "A Chemical Chimaera." It is a weakling hatched beneath the wing of Mr. H. G. Wells. Mr. Roelker's essay on "College Politics" is too rambling in style and thought to be as effective as it might. But his plea for more intelligent interest in politics is one that we might heed with advantage. The anonymous essay "Concerning Those Who Appreciate" is loose and bland and vague. One wants to punch it between the shoulders...