Word: plea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Further impetus was given, last week, to Governor General Leonard Wood's plea for $1,000,000 for the leper colony on the Island of Culion, the Philippines...
...character of Fricka seemed to become momently less goddesslike. Strutting in a manner little indicated by her role, she approached the wings, hissed a plea for silence. The voice went on. Fricka then took from her bosom a word that Austria has defended with the lives of 10,000 duelists, hurled this after her plea. The voice went on. It was a moment for desperate shifts. Queen Fricka, somewhat forgetful of the proprieties, spat a jet of saliva which, soaring through the group around the noisy raconteuse, settled on the shoulder of a Valkyr...
Four pleaded not guilty. Because they did not throw themselves upon the mercy of the court, the mercy of the court was capricious. One case was filed, one dismissed, and two men discovered that their plea had cost them a $5 fine. Cambridge police declared last night that similar infringement of the parking rules in the club and dormitory district near Mount Auburn street in the future would result more unfortunately for undergraduates...
...bustles on this "lady" of ours. Herein there are several points to consider on both sides. The conservative element, if we waive any apprehensions of the undergraduates' tendency to "ride," through colleges, has more to justify the plan of adherence to specific requirements than has the vociferous liberal's plea for selection. In the first place, the degree must mean something. We don't want candidates at graduation presented with a medal for "spending" four years in college. Nor do we want them lop-sided brain specimens...
...real reason why the better students dislike "paternalism" is because the teachers do all the work in the college instead of merely directing it, as they do in the graduate schools. The plea for the extension of "honors" courses, likewise, is a plea for the development of individual initiative and more advanced investigation; the motive is exactly the same as that of graduate work. The exceptional student however, should be given the opportunity to take "honors" courses. This means the expenditure of more money. The type of man the faculty requires to handle such work is hard to find...