Word: pleas
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...only a week off, even if they are, and we do not suggest that it is time to begin work on them. Any man who needs such admonitions is referred to bound volumes of the CRIMSON which may be seen upon application at the office. But we have one plea to make of instructors, a plea which we feel we may safely say comes from the majority of undergraduates: we plead for more final reviews. In many courses there is a certain lack of correlation of the lectures with one another and with the reading, which means a complete lack...
...personal friend." Excellence in intellectual pursuits craves the approval of the masses, however seldom it gets such approval; and since effort in an intercollegiate competition is sure to win some degree of recognition from the undergraduate masses, the new plan may prove effective. The second essay is a plea by Mr. Peters to have enrolled upon the Memorial Hall tablets the names of Harvard men who died for the Southern Confederacy. The plea is against sectional prejudice...
With the current Advocate, the new board makes its first bow to the College public; and on the whole the number is creditable. The first editorial, "An Appeal to the Fair Minded," makes a plea for the addition to the tablets in Memorial Hall of the names of the Harvard men who fell fighting under the Stars and Bars. This question has been for some time agitated in the graduate publications as well as in the Advocate; we may hope that,--perhaps with the aid of the Forum,--its resurrection will result in a more satisfactory decision. But perhaps...
...Mechem makes a plea for more comic opera, and his observations are very sensible, but where are witty librettists? Provide them and scores of well-equipped composers will spring up ready and able to make adequate, even brilliant, musical settings...
...words: "Searching for truth, and applying truth to practical affairs, is the most interesting thing in life." But many besides undergraduates might read with profit the suggestive remarks of Professor Legouis on "Scholarship and Athletics," Professor Eucken's far-sighted treatment of "German University Problems." Dr. Snedden's eloquent plea for "The New Education" and Dr. Learned's enthusias- tic account of "Harvard's Training for Teachers...