Word: pleas
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...especial interest to college men are "The Sports of an Irish Fair," "Association Football," "A Bout with the Gloves." in "The Sports of an Irish Fair," Robt. F. Walsh puts in a claim for Ireland as the country where base ball had its origin. "Association Foot Ball" is a plea for this particular branch of football. The author thinks that football as played under the association rules ought to become the national winter pastime of boys and men, and predicts that the lovers of the sport will soon see a team in every large city of the East...
...secure his degree for fourteen courses instead of eighteen as at present. The Harvard faculty proposes no such radical reduction in the requirement for the degree. If it be said that the work done in the professional school does count some toward the A. B. degree,-a rather specious plea it is true, the plan is still open to serious objection. The faculty here say that the A. B. degree should represent broad, liberal training, and not the technical work of the professional schools. They have held to this conception of the meaning of the degree in their proposed change...
Under the head of "Topics of the Day," an able plea is made for attendance at the morning chapel services, even if one attends simply to secure "a little quiet meditation and daydreaming." The article is an unaffected expression of thoughts and reveries which come to many...
...meeting of the American Historical association at Washington, December 29-31, Professor Adolphe Cohn will have a paper on the "Formation of the French Constitution," Professor Kuno Francke on "Karl Follen and the Liberal Student Movement in Germany from 1815 to 1819." Dr. Charles Gross will present "A Plea for Reform in the Study of English Municipal History." Professor Edward Channing, as chairman, will report on "The Teaching of History." Edward Campbell Mason of the Law School has a paper upon "Presidential Protests," Herman V. Ames of the Graduate School, one on "Amendments to the Constitution of the United States...
...Having already passed successfully the critical point of beginning the plea of "aid to infant industry" is not pertinent...