Word: pleas
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Professor Mather Abbott of the faculty, who is acting as coach for the Elis, is aiming to provide sport this year for all rather than to develop a specialized highly-trained eight. Every candidate, accordingly, who has reported for practice will be retained throughout the season, and a strong plea will be made for new men to come out. In speaking of the crew prospects at Yale, Professor Abbott is quoted by the New York Evening Post as saying...
...seems to be designed for "home consumption." In spite of censorship and exaggerated or even ficticious reports, the rumors of internal unrest in the Central Powers are not unfounded. Mutinies among sailors as well as Socialist discontent apparently exist, even though their importance may be overestimated. No better plea could be used to quell these than that Germany has agreed to discuss the enemy's proposals, but the enemy has persisted in fighting. What is ostensibly for external peace may be in reality for internal...
January 20.--Dr. G. H. Wright '03 on "Teeth and their Relation to Human Ailments; a Plea for Conservation...
...much struck by the Advocate's second editorial in the current issue "A Plea for Prose." So far as my own experience goes, it is unique in either academic or professional journalism. Yet I should not be surprised if it were found significant of the general literary situation. I understand that it has become increasingly difficult to get good stories for the magazines, one reason being the greater profit from writing scenarios for the "movies," another the deductive attraction of vers libre. The latter enables a writer to utilize at once, it primitive, semi-poetic, material--idea of image--that...
...College behind President Lowell's appeal of Tuesday night, than it could by weeks of exhortation. It can, moreover, set an example to the country at large that may be greatly needed in the future. And it can provide more convincing evidence to show our support of its plea for universal military service than a hundred delegations to Washington could furnish...