Word: plea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most difficult ever arranged and declared that "we've got about the hardest job a team ever had to beat Princeton next fall". "In order to win that game and win from Yale we have to begin right away," he continued. He closed his speech with a plea for determined work at spring practice, in order that the coaches might know better next fall who to retain on the University squad...
...style as Captain O'Connell's "Track Athletics at Harvard." In what appears to be an adequate analysis of the history of the subject, he disengages past mistakes from obscurity and, by means of illuminating criticism, transforms them into danger signals for the future. He ends with a plea for undergraduate support. The article undeniably merits the initial position assigned it in the magazine...
...unquestionably true that this fact will do much to dispel any impression of inbred localization of view. There were Yale men before the university corporations who undeniably would have been passable or even good presidents. That the final choice fell upon a man without this sentimental plea to back him cannot but make the country feel that there is at New Haven a degree of broad-mindedness and courage which is the farthest possible remove from decadence. --CHICAGO TRIBUNE
...wish to register a strong plea for holding the Commencement Exercises in the Stadium instead of in Sanders Theatre...
...agree with your editorial in the CRIMSON in which you disapprove of our President's meritorious conduct in refusing to release Eugene V. Debs from Federal prison. Apparently it is a manifestation of the modern so-called "liberal" tendency in our modern undergraduates which finds outlet in a general plea for the "under dog" no matter why he is "under...