Word: pleas
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reticent about disclosing anything in connection with their meeting on Tuesday afternoon, the result of the discussion which took place then has leaked out. After a protracted debate on the subject of voluntary prayers, the board decided by their vote to put themselves on record as favorable to the plea made in the recent petition presented by the students. This is another step in the right direction, if the wishes of the majority of students are to be consulted. The overseers and corporation are the persons who have the power to say whether such things as voluntary prayers shall...
...Nassau Literary Magazine, of Princeton, stoutly denounces professional umpires, and makes this plea for having alumni take their places in umpiring the inter-collegiate games. "The experience of each successive base ball season proves that an honest and impartial umpire has been the exception. We propose, as a remedy, that a corps of umpires be appointed, which shall consist of one alumnus as regular, and another as substitute umpire, from each of the colleges in the Inter-collegiate Base Ball Association, and that these be elected by the college independently, to hold office for a limited time...
...effort to have the hearing before the Committee on Athletics postponed having proved fruitless, it is timely to put in a plea for the continuance of foot ball in the future. It seems to us that foot ball is too valuable a game to be discontinued and that, it the committee have so strong an objection to the game as their notice implies, they should make an attempt to better it before forbidding it entirely. That it is a valuable game is proved in many ways. Not long ago, the man most qualified to know, the director of the gymnasium...
This makes it a question of some importance and it should receive attention, and not be shelved in the Republican favor by the plea of "custom," a plea which plays too large a part in the present Republican campaign. The college is made up of students from all parts of the nation, many of them voters, all more or less interested in and acquainted with political questions, and if the students are going to take part in a political demonstration at all, it is fitting it should be done after deliberation and with a purpose, and not in servile acquiescence...
...taken through sophomore year so that the student may read standard authors whose words are as alive today as when uttered many hundred years ago, and that all the time and trouble spent over the elements of Greek and Latin may not be thrown aside as waste. The plea that this election will make a man's course complex and that he will get a broken knowledge of many subjects is some what strained. True, a little training in any subject is a dangerous thing, but when the modern languages and English studies follow after a solid foundation...