Word: plea
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Captain F. W. Capper '15, in a brief speech outlined the work of the track squads for the winter and spring seasons and made a strong plea for the same co-operation and spirit among the men on the track teams as existed on the football team...
...battle has been fought and won to all intents and purposes. The little band of Pelleastres that gathered more than a decade ago in the Opera Comique would find now only a timid enemy. J. D. Austin's "Debussy and his Critics," therefore, is pertinent rather, as an eloquent plea for fair-mindedness in criticism than as an apologia for the piquant and genial author...
...this latter objection to the cause was a real one, but classified it as the fear of the conservative and timid that any change, social, legal, or industrial, in the status of woman would do a great harm to women and thence to the family. She closed with the plea that the whole woman suffrage question depends on people thinking in the light of reason and justice, instead of seeing the cause through the mist of their own prejudices or the conservatism which is bred of custom; in short, that people should consider the question on its own merits...
Could anything be more pitiful or pertinent than the plea of the benumbed Yard-dweller for more heat, that the CRIMSON prints today. Surely partial refrigeration is not an attribute of Seniority. Surely a congealed cerebrum conduces not to mental activity. To awake, frozen to death, is one of the most annoying experiences an undergraduate can encounter. To find one's ink in a state of conglaciation is even more disconcerting...
...articles are three in number. The editor-in-chief makes a plea for more of the classics in the curriculum, especially Hellenic culture, his thesis being that at present the language is studied at the expense of appreciation of essentials. Although he recognizes the value of linguistic study, insistence on it means a neglect of Greek culture in translation for most people.--A small voice in a wilderness, perhaps, but one that deserves attention. P. Bradley '16 has written a chatty article on "Harvard Men in Washington," an account of the lesser lights of the administration that might be more...