Word: pleas
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...essay, "A Plea for Leisure," recognizes a real need in college life that is often lost sight of in our discussions of three-year degrees, and incentives to work. "Leisure," the author says, "means a time for quiet reading, thinking and talking." Emphatically it does not mean a time of stagnation. Neither is it time taken away from study. A boy entering college is at a very impressionable, formative period. We, the teaching force, should find means to stir him intellectually, to rouse his ambition to do, and should also give him time to think, for all the new ideas...
Herr von Heymel ended his lecture with a plea to students in American universities and colleges, and particularly in Harvard, to remember that the living exist for the living, and that it is the duty of art lovers in this country to encourage and assist artists to seize the splendid opportunities which America holds out to them...
...peculiar teachings of Jesus found in Matthew or Luke are best represented in their peculiar parables. In the parables of Matthew the most noteworthy ethical truth is Jesus's plea for considering temperament and final issue, as set forth in the parable of the two sons...
...convenience of embryo newspaper men but we feel that the enrollment in a journalistic school would not be large enough to justify the expense. This difficulty could be obviated by a gift from some generous graduate, but if there are donations to be made, we put in a plea for a new Gymnasium before a school for journalism...
Under the caption of "The Harvard Daily Truth--A Vision," Mr. von Kaltenborn pictures a great newspaper run and operated by the University, partly as an example of what a great university ought to be, and partly as a great school of practical journalism. It is a well-written plea for what the author is pleased to call a new movement in education. There is undoubtedly a movement toward making all instruction objective and practical. Mr. von Kaltenborn's plan looks in that direction. There is also a movement toward restricting a school or a college to those parts...