Word: plea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This editorial, a plea to the Faculty invoked by a problem not yet settled, is reprinted from an issue of the Magenta, the precursor of the Crimson, of 55 years ago. At the printing of this, on November 21, 1878, the Magenta had been established one year...
...presidency to Martin Van Buren. and before California became a state, Ellen Scripps was born. In 1873 she helped her brother found a newspaper which was the first of today's Scripps newspaper syndicate. "Miss Ellen" always considered her wealth a public trust. She harkened to the faintest plea for a sound philanthropical cause. She has endowed hospitals, schools, given parks, community buildings...
Young Senator LaFollette said nothing committal. It was still possible for Nominee Curtis, who went stumping through Wisconsin last week, to endorse the young man's candidacy for re-election to the Senate. "That brilliant young man," Nominee Curtis called him, in what seemed an importunate plea to keep the Progressives of the Northwest in line for the Hoover-Curtis ticket...
...last library chou-chou, through whose curved muzzle we had been receiving and sending messages to the central reading room thirty miles back of the lines, has been cut off. When I sent my last plea for help, I had to wait thirty minutes for an answer. Various bulletins which I recognized as spurious, came through, carrying such messages in a heavy German hand as? 'Out for two weeks', 'reserved for the Rainbow Division', or 'in bindery'. At last came back my own cylinder. With Edson, our flagbearer, who had been wounded in the head, drooling Beowulf...
...himself on the range in New Mexico and Colorado. He tells about his picturesque life in the most human and likeable fashion, and his West is even more exciting than that of flashy novels and photoplays because it has the convincing spirit of reality and historical correctness. Mr. Collins' plea for authentic portrayal of conditions and life in those lusty days is a commendable one, and by carrying out his own precepts he has enriched our literature of the West of by-gone days. For the West he is describing is no more. One recognizes the fact with a certain...