Word: plea
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...form. It would be difficult to disprove the arguments, though more might be said in favor of the hunter. The style is in keeping with the thought, vigorous and dignified. In a "Letter from a Captain of Industry to his Literary Friend," W. M. E. Perkins makes a strong plea for the life of action as against the life of contemplation. The captain of industry rather overshoots the mark. Few would agree with the assertion that "now, here in America, those who make this nation what it is, the greatest of world powers, turn their energies to commerce." This would...
...aims by the general secretary himself. Mr. Wells's clear view of the possibilities of his position, along with his enthusiasm and disinterested loyalty, augurs well for the success of the undertaking. Mr. H. von Kaltenborn closes a candid review of the season's University dramatic productions with a plea for the formation of a Harvard Dramatic Society, which shall unite the best talent now scattered over a large number of club performances. The highly satisfactory performances of this week in the Elizabeth Cary Agassiz House indicate what might be done by such a union, and there is reason...
...intercollegiate sport in maintaining the influence and reputation of the University seems to the reviewer only another proof of the charge that athletics are viewed by many students in a totally false perspective. A. H. Elder describes the growth of lacrosse in the American colleges, and makes a plea for its further development. A sonnet, "Notre Dame de Paris," is smoothly written, and the octave has some excellent lines...
...another; some in things of the body, some in things of the mind; and where thousands are gathered together each will naturally find some group of specially congenial friends with whom he will form ties of peculiar social intimacy. These groups--athletic, artistic, scientific, social--must inevitably exist. My plea is not for their abolition. My plea is that they shall be got into the right focus in the eyes of college men; that the relative importance of the different groups shall be understood when compared with the infinitely greater life of the college as a whole. Let each...
...extracts from the minutes of the Arionic Society--founded in 1813 and one of the oldest of Harvard's musical clubs--give an insight, the more pleasing because it is so rare, into the customs and the life and the spirit of the older Harvard. In "Academic Leisure" a plea is made for a real leisure in the life of our higher institutions of learning, and an active opposition by these institutions of "worship of energy and the frantic eagerness for action" in favor of "an atmosphere of calm reflection...