Word: pleaded
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Half the troubles of mankind come from an ignorance which consists less in not knowing things, than in wilfully ignoring known things. Certain great political and social plagues exist for which men of thought should be an antidote. What I plead for today is the wider, nobler, unpaid service which an educated man renders to society simply by being thoughtful and by helping others to think. Passion, as well as ignorance, is dangerous. Educated men should oppose war when avoidable but when it becomes inevitable they should be its most vigorous advocates. No man ought to be too much educated...
...genius. In the first place she had to suffer the contempt with which her grandmother treated her mother, who was a common work-woman. Here we see in George Sand the first seed of revolt against social institutions. Secondly, she was unhappy in her marriage and it was to plead her cause that she first became a writer...
...come forward to make the exception. The state of her crew finances is very low. Not only does this indicate deplorable selfishness on the part of the individual members, but a class spirit which has no place in Harvard. It is a weak excuse when asked for money to plead indebtedness and then openly to indulge in extravagant amusements. There were thirty-five men in Ninety-five last year who subscribed twenty-five dollars apiece. Ninety-six has just six men who have had the spirit to help their crew along to that extent. Comparatively few can subscribe...
...evils attendant on the prohibition of pools are so marked that the thoughtful men of our country are unanimous for a repeal. Before our opponents can plead for an extension of control, they must prove the beneficence of the present control...
...itself until it is too late for him to profit from them. We are inclined here at college to try to do too much, to have a hand in that thing or this thing and in consequence to do many things indifferently instead of a few things successfully. We plead no time to stop to take the voluntary advantages offered us by the University; and yet it is certain that at no time after college life do we find these advantages under as good circumstances. These varied lectures and conferences offered us now will never be offered so conveniently when...