Word: plea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Appointment Office of the University has issued a plea for more applicants for teaching positions of all kinds. Calls are coming in continuously from preparatory schools and colleges all over the country for young men and at present there is a great scarcity of available men on the Appointment Office lists...
...Aviation as college sport" is the plea made by Mr. Laurence L. Driggs, President of the American Flying Club, the organization which conducted the recent New York-Toronto and transcontinental races. Predicting that in no very distant time colleges will officially take up aviation as a recognized sport, Mr. Driggs urges that "in the meantime every encouragement should be given these enthusiastic airmen of the colleges who hold their first aeroplane contest on May 8 at Mineola, Long Island...
...than the College Yard. The best of them on Labor in Politics is a good piece of sane and careful thought; the paragraphs on political ferment at Harvard and on prohibition are more in the manner of the Transcript's frequent badinage. The conservatives may read with misgivings the plea for liberalizing our curriculum still further through introducing a course on Hamlet by Forbes Robertson, with histrionic demonstrations of the lectures; but it must be remembered that Columbia has long since stolen a march upon us by establishing a course on the "movies." The articles on the "Reconstruction...
...public men to hear a frank statement of facts from a man who knows the truth about our government. Last night Mr. Roosevelt arraigned our government on a series of charges that is none the less appalling because it is so familiar. For years we have heard the plea for a national budget, for the introduction of business methods in the executive departments, for fair treatment of government employees. All we have done about it is to criticize and condemn...
Another feature of the fighting mayor's campaign for Americanization is his plea for the teacher. In the school teacher he sees the keystone of the arch of Americanization. As a result he demands of his audience that they consider the standing of the teacher...