Word: plea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unless some Harvard men volunteer this week to play the part of early university students in Cambridge's $65,000 100 the Anniversary Pageant, Harvard men will be represented by miscellaneous town citizens," William E. Van Lennep, theatre curator of the College Library, declared yesterday in a plea for help...
...road which had kept them from shipping grain, coal and steel. They were also mad enough four months later to do something about it. Nineteen shippers made up a $10,000 pool, used it to hire a smart lawyer. He went into Federal Court with a novel plea: the T. P. & W. (though highly solvent), was "physically bankrupt," so a receiver should be appointed to run the trains...
Registering two facets of student body concern with the state of learning in College, O'Donnell claimed that undergraduates generally had come to support the General Education plan along with the Administration's reasons for a temporary curtailment of the tutorial system, and reiterated his plea of the evening before for a student activities center as a war memorial...
Professor Shapley, on the contrary, put the accent on science as the potential saving force for the world, and asked for scientific institutions with international participation, and entered a plea for a great science center building to house all University research projects. Provost Buck pointd out the functions required of social scientists...
...have suggested that our Science Editor was hoodwinked into thinking he was making scientific sense. Not so. He was merely giving wider circulation to the engineering firm's kidding the mumbo -jumbo language in which too many scientific treatises are written. He was also, by implication, making a plea for a simpler, clearer use of the King's or any other English...