Word: plea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...favor of a University boxing team has recently given rise to a petition signed by 80 undergraduates, urging the adoption of the sport. This petition has been handed in to the newly formed Undergraduates Athletic Council for consideration. It is believed that the H. A. A. regards the pugilistic plea with a favorable...
...almost any heinous insult to morals that passing fancy chooses to decry. And now its potentialities for destroying the fruitful years of the flower of American culture--the college man--are again pointed out. Dean of Men, Goodnight, of the University of Wisconsin has recently made a passionate plea to fathers against this vile filcher of the young man's time and money. He is evidently of the impression that the paths of autos lead but to the roadhouse where w.ne flows freely and time is lightly slain. Goodnight points out significantly that a car enables a student of weak...
...having read of the Harvard he knows and of the Harvard of an earlier time, and of John Harvard whose "School Abides, his testament", he is ready for the sterner stuff contained in Aswell's Bowdorn Prize essay, "This Modern Chaos Called Education." It is a cogent plea that Education, Philosophy, and Life be linked in an indissoluble bond. Teachers must make of their subjects a framework for their philosophy. A philosophy of life must be the aim of Education, and whether it result in a religious or a humanistic philosophy is of little concern to the essayist, though...
...attorney for the state conjured 14-year-old Carl Glaze as his mystery witness, and according to the prosecutors, gazing Glaze has seen sufficient to wreck the Parson's plea of self-defense. Dr. Norris is the potent medicine-man of the Texas Fundamentalists. With the aid of the Ku Klux, who he claims have rallied to his cause, he may get off easily. But some, who do not take Dr. Norris' medicine, hope District Attorney Hanger lives up to his name...
...salvaged only five). Dr. Norris prefaced his sermon with an appeal for funds to aid in fighting his case. Members showered over $25,000 upon the man who slew, he said, in self defense. Dr. Norris is as unswervable as the flood of Genesis in his self defense plea, announcing that "here and now I serve notice on Satan and all others that I will not retract...