Word: plea
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...class institutions is that of the Red Book. This year marks the fifth anniversary of its appearance and each year has seen it a better book than its predecessors. Success of the publication can only be assured when it has the staunch support of the class it represents. A plea has come for this support. The class of 1917 should see that it is given...
General Wood bases his plea for these camps on the ground that "military training is as important as training in civic life." This principle was undoubtedly true in the Dark Ages, but it is as unquestionably untrue now, and in fact nowhere more untrue than in the United States of America...
Owing to a superabundance of snow flakes, the CRIMSON-Lampoon hockey game, scheduled for this afternoon, has been postponed until Thursday afternoon. This decision was reached after a lengthy conference yesterday afternoon, the CRIMSON management finally giving in to the urgent plea of the Lampooners. While the CRIMSON team intends to bury Lampy alive, it doesn't believe in rubbing it in; and so much snow would offer an irresistable temptation...
...Burke's plea for the adoption of the rhythm of ragtime by the musician he writes: "A queer accusation against it is that of monotony," and proceeds to show in disproof that several hundred different combinations of eighth notes are possible in a measure of four beats. True, doubtless, but there is in practice, very little variety in the grouping of these combinations in the phrase--often a constant repetition of a two measure group--and practically none in the arrangement of the several phrases. The insistency of the syncopation only aggravates the obviousness of the phraseology and the resulting...
Discussing Woman Suffrage as a social symptom, the speaker made a strong plea in its favor. The argument that women should not vote because they cannot fight is based on the antiquated theory that physical might makes right. Persuasion and argument are much more potent. Especially in such matters as marriage and divorce, and the education of children, and in taxation, women should be given an opportunity to use their influence. But, it should be added, if it had not been for the militant movement in England, the suffrage movement would have been dead years...