Word: plea
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...With a freshness and toleration, the antithesis of the sourness and personal tone of the Confessions, the Impressions satisfy us, but still sound a warning against the unnatural and artificial indifference which seems to hover over us like a threatening cloud. They make a just, though silent, plea for the spontaneous...
...Harvard News" we are on familiar ground in Mr. Nelson's interesting and sensible account of the pernicious distortion of University news by the newspapers. The concrete examples will open the eyes of those whose knowledge of the evil has been vague. The article is a strong plea for the great good that might be done by a Harvard Press Club...
Distinctly the best work is done in the essays where undergraduate work usually is best. Mr. Whistlerr's plea for strict nonprofessionalism in amateur athletics stands out as the most noteworthy contribution to the magazine. The exposition is admirably clear and just, the illustrations are well chosen, and there is a maturity in the style which is most grateful to the reader. "The Joy of being a Freshman," by Mr. Murdock, is in humorous vein, and enjoys a real merit among pieces of its kind in making fun moderately and in having a vital subject. The writer has discovered...
...from the Athletic Association which we print this morning, regarding ushers' tickets, are indicative of some of the lowest attempts imaginable on the part of certain students, whom we refuse to grace with the name of Harvard men, to defraud the College by speculation. Any man who, on the plea of poverty, has secured a ticket admitting to the Stadium as an usher and who has sold the ticket, deserves not the least semblance of sympathy. He has secured his ticket under false pretenses and has then proceeded to deprive men who really need the opportunity of a chance...
There is an article in the current number of the Illustrated that should command the careful attention of every man really interested in the welfare of Harvard, and that article is Mr. Farrington's earnest plea for "A Harvard Press Association." Harvard is peculiarly unfortunate in being placed in the near vicinity of the Boston newspaper world, for while most of the papers are really desirous of printing the right kind of news about Harvard there are one or two which consistently persist in publishing false and malicious stories concerning the student life in the University. Although these papers...