Word: plead
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...body politic of this community by virtue of our substantial interest in learning all that Cambridge and Massachusetts, as well as Harvard, have to teach us. We are native Americans, mostly of New England ancestry, easily adjusted to the conditions about us; surely we can with justice plead for recognition as qualified to take part in the civic life of this our city. And we might have picked up an occasional idea about street lighting, sidewalks, paving, city managers, budgets, etc., in some Missouri town, which could be of service here. Not as inhabitants and qualified voters of Arizona...
...teaching should so long have been one of the most poorly paid professions, but that the tide has turned, in the university and in the secondary school, accumulating evidence proves. No longer are teachers in boys' schools, for example, paid the meager salaries that led Charles Dickens to plead their cause in his portrayal of Mr. Mell, the master of Salem House, whose boots were sent back by the cobbler, with the message that he could not mend them any more because there was not a bit of the original boot left. Christian Science Monitor...
...eyes of the world to a point which no civilized Caucasian nation ever reached before. The American government has not one friend among the peoples of the world today, and those who dare to maintain that American ideals are as sound as they ever were can only plead that the present administration does not represent the true state of public opinion in the country. If we are not to stand self-confessed as willing to surrender to anyone who may threaten us, be they labor leaders within our borders or arrogant governments without, it is absolutely necessary that we turn...
Progress marches slowly; and some day it may be hoped that dwellers in the Yard will not have to plead for the elementary comfort. Else, most certainly and desirably, they who refuse this demand, will one day enjoy heat in abundance...
This is the first time that the complaints have been seriously considered by the Faculty. Since the Student Council, ostensibly the mediator between students and Faculty, is not allowed to plead directly before the Faculty but must content itself with sending to it a written petition, there is always considerable difficulty in obtaining a hearing for a complaint. The oral exams. have been overhauled by previous Student Councils, but their recommendations have been shelved or blocked in some department before they ever reached the Faculty. By the time that the class of 1915, after being in the toils for three...