Word: pleaded
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...humbly pray, however, for its fulfillment. The writer of the editorial has expressed a divine truth. Rejuvenation is exactly the variety of transformation which, we should say, was the Lampoon's most crying need. We do not ask for great originality. The College field is too limited. We merely plead that some-one endeavor to lure from the verdant spirits who have not yet fallen under the hypnotic influence of the established and irresistibly comic sources of our University humor, some joke, some drawing, that does not deal with the polar seclusion of Conant and Perkins, the chill heart...
...this hearing the lawyers who presented the petition for the charter, President Eliot, and other gentlemen who spoke in favor of it, made no effect on the bostile committee of the legislature. Then Mrs. Agassiz arose to plead her own cause. Her address was a notable example of the effectiveness of public speaking; at its close the committee...
...impossible for any Harvard man, who has seen the play, not to regard it as a false and absurd representation of Harvard life, which does not even plead the excuse of being a travesty. There is abundant proof that the play has been accepted as authentic in many of the large cities in this country. It was applauded at Yale...
...Sargent also read a paper on "Strength Tests and Inspection of Instruments." Dr. W. G. Anderson of Yale made a timely address on "Prevention of Athletes Entering Competitions in a Crippled Condition." Two special committees were formed, one to consider the relation of gymnastics to athletics and to plead with the athletic captains for a better understanding with the trainers and athletes, and the other to consider the treatment of organic troubles of students...