Word: pleas
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...discoveries from experimental investigations and the more common results, or accompanying effects of inveterate drinking. Although alcohol warms the skin by increasing the circulation, yet in a person who is paralyzed by liquor the temperature of the body is found to be several degrees below normal. The really strong plea for drinking is that it acts as an aid to conviviality, also that it helps at a crisis, but though it may produce temporary happiness, the following effects will be deeper melancholy and though it may stimulate for the moment, it leaves its victim all the more demoralized afterwards...
Professor de Sumichrast contributes to the number an interesting description of the provisions which are made each year by the Faculty and students of the University for welcoming and aiding "The New Comer at Harvard." Other articles are: "A Plea for the Study of Russian," "The Importance of Veterinary Science," and "The Hemenway Gymnasium." The suggestion of Dr. Sargent contained in the last of these is given at length in another column...
...cheer by Ninety-eight is questionable. The congratulations of the University are hearty, but the appropriation of the cheer by Ninety-eight, even at such a time - a cheer which is the peculiar property of the sophomore class by descent from Ninety-four - is scarcely excusable unless on the plea of ignorance...
...club had desecrated a place of meeting or had behaved in an unseemly way, or had lost dignity to an extent not to be excused by a plea of enthusiasm, there would seem to be reason in the new rule on grounds of University policy. But the students have seen no such disgrace...
...Paul's plea "That I may know Him," was satisfied partially when, going to Damascus, he was changed from a hater of mankind to one of its firmest advocates, when he turned from the scorn and contempt of a Pharisee to the love and duty of a Christian. Then again he grew to know Chirst from studying and appreciating his life until, as the orb of day pierces the early morning mists, so he saw the personality of Christ rise through the sorrows of his life. Finally Paul grew to know Christ by serving Him; he suffered and accomplished, lived...