Word: plea
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...majority of the directors of the Co-operative Society on May 24 sent to each member of the Society a copy of the plans they propose for the incorporation of the Society. Together with this plan they sent a plea for its adoption, in the form of a majority report. The majority refused to the minority its right to publish a minority report together with their own. This attempt on the part of the majority to check a full discussion of the proposed changes affords a strong reason why the Society should refuse to adopt their plan...
...Robert E. Speer's address in the Union yesterday evening was a plea for ignorance of all uncleanness. The proverb that "knowledge is power," he said, is only half true. Some knowledge is indeed a source of power, but some is a source of weakness and death, or worse. And of those things of which knowledge may be worse than death, a man should have the courage and the will to remain absolutely ignorant...
...interesting sketch of some features of political campaigning in New York during the past autumn. "'Soapy' Smith," by B. Wendell, Jr., and "The Hoboes' Congress," by L. M. Crosbie, are the two stories of the issue. Neither one has enough incident and movement to make it especially interesting. "A Plea for the Rush," by J. Willard Helburn, is, in effect, reply to Professor Shaler's article against the rush, which was printed by the Monthly in November...
Atlantic Monthly--"The Resources of the Confederacy," by William G. Brown '91; "A Plea for Crabbe," by Paul E. Moore...
...November number of the Monthly contains as its leading article a discussion by Dean Shaler of "The 'Bloody Monday' Question." The writer makes a strong plea for the discontinuance of the annual Sophomore-Freshman rush; the arguments he uses are forceful and are likely to be convincing to the under-graduate body if regard for old custom is not too strong for the judgments of cool reasoning...