Word: pleadings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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What subtle irony! What an efficient pricking of the German sympathy bubble! Our sentimental friends who plead for pity on "poor bleeding Germany" should read this letter. The memory of Louvain called up here so vividly would perhaps deter them from their path of mercy...
...college man is at all times troubled by a lack of time and money. Many students are always ready to contribute to any worthy cause. More, however, find it easier to leave it to the family or to plead off because of lack of funds. The difficulty of reaching the undergraduate's pocketbook has become proverbial, and human nature has not changed. The demands of the present week, however, must necessarily pierce the armor-plate of every man's private exchequer...
This is as it should be, for $19,000 remains to be subscribed by undergraduates during this last week, if our quota is to be filled. The terms of subscription to these bonds are such that no one can plead exemption. The need of supplying our Government with the funds of fighting makes the filling of bond quotas imperative. Logic is no longer needed on this bond question. Action and quick action is in order. Let the University be among those institutions which not only recognize Government needs, but give of what they have in full measure...
...examinations. Many doubtless hope to escape failure because of the leniency of a patriotic instructor. But it must be remembered that the Faculty is not going to be so sentimental as to let violations of this sort occur. It is on the watch for those who would plead necessity as the reason for their own backwardness...
...many times a day or week do we plead, "No time for reading"? Of course, it goes without saying that we can't have something for nothing in this world, and if we could, it wouldn't be worth much. Every day we pay some sort of coin for the things we want--and that without a murmur! If reading is one of the things we want most--well, just between us, don't you think the fellow who begs "No time for reading!" usually means "No inclination"--whether he knows that is what he means or not? Daily Illini