Word: plea
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...leading article in the November Monthly is a vigorous plea for the betterment of athletics in the University; the writer urges that, as Harvard cannot move for reform till she is victorious, the thing to do at present is to win. There are three prose stories--all with good points. "The Voice of Mastery" describes a conflict between the sense of obligation to the marriage vow and passion for a woman who recognizes and inspires the man's literary ambition. The analysis of the man's feminine poetical temperament (represented as sometimes stimulated by preprandial cognac) is careful; the style...
...Carroll '06, "The Vision of War," Ingersoll; J. W. Russell '06, "Claudius and Cynthia," Thompson; H. S. Deming '05, "The Subjugation of the Philippines," Hoar; A. S. Murphy '06, "The Death of Rodrigues," Davis; J. L. Burns '06, "The Secret of Murder," Webster; W. M. Shohl '06, "A Plea for Cuba," Thurston; W. H. Davis '05, "Oration on Garfield," Blaine; P. E. Wye '06, "General Grant from the Confederate Point of View," Turley; W. O. Hubbard '05, "The Death of the Other Wise Man," Van Dyke; P. H. Noyes '06, "Napoleon the Little," Hugo; R. L. Hale '06, "Ulysses...
SEMITIC CONFERENCE. "The Messianic Plea in the Book of Daniel," Dr. Haynes. Semitic Museum, Room...
SEMITIC CONFERENCE. "The Messianic Plea in the Book of Daniel" Dr. Haynes. Semitic Museum, Room...
...sure, rowing is not self-supporting, nor, I believe, is track; yet the Committee has refused to concede the injustice of giving $3,200 worth of instruction to 400 rowing men and at the same time refusing $800 worth of instruction to fencing men. It would doubtless ignore a plea for proportionate expenditures on hockey as compared with track. By this arbitrary choice of sports and unhappy discrimination among the interests which are forced to submit in common to its rulings, the Committee has thrown upon the lovers of the minor sports the duty of attempting to secure unsided those...