Word: pleaded
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...college life, in bettering health and morals, and, by intercollegiate contests, bringing colleges into a desirable closer contact with each other. But the recognition that college athletics predominate too much is not confined only to outsiders; we ourselves can see the faults of their predominance. Yet we would not plead for less interest in athletics among students but for a corresponding interest in scholarly attainments; not that the "glorification of athletics," if it indeed be too great, should be lessened, but that the "glorification of letters" should be made equal...
...that we are put to such great inconveniencies, - inconveniencies which we have born now for not a few years. The addition of new lockers this fall has given a chance for increased attendance at the gymnasium, but we still lack a sufficient number of baths. We must continue to plead for baths and perhaps we shall finally get them...
...average Harvard undergraduate if asked to describe the Annex would probably plead ignorance, and yet the Annex is but a block...