Word: pleas
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Conrad's "Within the Tides" means in speaking of the author's "usual superlative style." Apparently the reviewer does not mean, as one might at first think, that Mr. Conrad usually writes in superlatives. Nor is statement of fact always correct. The first article, which makes a plea for a better and more accurate acquaintance with what it calls "Harvard's past," speaks of "five-dollar" fines, it would seem in the seventeenth century, and of University Hall as an eighteenth-century dining-room, though it was not built till early in the nineteenth century. And did Daniel Webster over...
...substance the current Advocate does not deserve so much praise; in fact, its substance is rather thin. The most interesting and significant article is one by Mr. L. P. Mansfield, "Beauty and the Beast"--refreshing, if not at times inspiring, in its plea for individuality in these days when there is so much talk about crushing out individuality, for the sake of democratic solidarity. In his admiration of Tolstoy and "the individuality of Russian art," Mr. Mansfield, to be sure, may not seem himself especially individual. Russian art is very much the fashion nowadays. But Mr. Mansfield is entirely right...
...opening address, Dean Briggs, president of the association, pointed out the evils of intercollegiate athletics and the possibilities of remedying many of them. He explained to the delegates the objects of the association which are not to abolish college athletics but to make them better. He made a strong plea for courtesy and common sense and said that if the colleges keep, at the head of their athletics, men who try to be honest and who trust each other, half of the evils of intercollegiate athletics will die a natural death...
Timely also and much needed is the message contained in Mr. Lodge's "Modest Plea in Defense of the Humanities." While it is neither possible nor desirable to turn education back into the channels in which it flowed at the time of the Renaissance enthusiasm for the ancient world, it is undoubtedly true that the pendulum has swung too far towards the so-called "practical" subjects. Living implies more than efficiency and abundance of material goods; it includes the prime necessity of escaping boredom. Mr. Lodge's plea needs hearing at Harvard, where the number of men concentrating...
...University Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, before its annual literary exercises yesterday, elected four honorary members, as well as officers for next year. The men honored by the society were Alfred Noyes, of Exeter College, Oxford, England, who delivered his poem "A Plea for Peace" in Sanders Theatre yesterday; Sidney Edward Mezes '92, president of the University of Texas from 1908 to 1914 and recently made president of the College of the City of New York; Chester Noyes Greenough '98, professor of English at Harvard; and Oswald Garrison Villard '93, editor-in-chief of the New York Evening...