Word: plea
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...greater part of the "Memorial Gymnasium Number" of the "Illustrated" is devoted to a plea for the erection of a great, modern gymnasium as a memorial to those Harvard men who died in the service of the nation. Although the high purpose of the proposal can not be doubted, and although the benefits to the University would probably be great if the plan were carried out, there are one or two points in the case which merit investigation...
...back to duty at Cambridge at the earliest possible moment. It is a good sign that the College Office is making preparations to handle two thousand registrants today, and expects more to drift in during the next few weeks as they obtain their discharges from services. The plea of resuming one's college education is frequently the only one which causes an application for immediate discharge to be considered, especially in the Navy. Thus does the Government indicate its appreciation of the importance of getting the colleges back on a normal footing...
...members of the S. A. T. C. and others acquainted with the routine thereof, the application of this little story to local conditions is only too evident. Whether or not the military authorities at Apthorp, however, could with reason make a similar plea of ignorance in regard to the policy of supervised study, is not certain. From all that we gather, the noctural practice of supervised study is not only tremendously unpopular but pre-eminently defeasive of the ends which it purports to further...
...speeches, which were delivered Thursday evening in Sever 11, the candidates were allowed to choose their own oration, if approved by Dean Briggs, the Boylston Professor. Lewis delivered Mark Antony's oration from "Julius Casar," Hettleman repeated "A Plea for Cuba," by John M. Thurston. "Abraham Lincoln's Declaration of Independence," given on February 22, 1861, was chosen by Scanlan...
...scale,-such as discontinuance of the purchase of non-essentials,-because it would injure their particular business. We have employers who refuse to give their workmen enough wages to maintain a decent standard of living. We have various over-rich persons in the community ignoring completely our government's plea for conservation. We have lawyers, politicians, and other men holding positions of public trust that are susceptible to advances by unscrupulous individuals. We have ministers who have become impregnated with the subtle influence of Mammon-worship which should be their deadliest foe. Last of all, we have a whole nation...