Word: pleas
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...speaking further of the character of the plays, Mr. Rains said, "One of the most striking features of the plays is is that, though twenty-three centries old, they are essentially modern in their character--a fact brought out by "Trojan Women" which has been called the strongest plea against war ever written. It depicts the effect of war upon four women, Hecuba, Andromache, Helen, and Cassandra, who have had their homes destroyed and are being led away into captivity. The whole play is aimed as a protest against the conditions of strife in Greece due to the Peloponnesian...
...Lorenz '16.--"Plea of Sergeant Buzfuz," by Charles Dickens...
...most serious objections to the raise in the tuition fee have been based upon a plea for curtailing expenses, particularly in the Graduate School. It is claimed that this department will receive by far the greater benefit from the increase. Examination of the facts will show that this is not the case. Princeton and Yale both have much lower fees for their graduate schools than for the college. Harvard alone charges a uniform fee. Yet the benefits undergraduates derive from the Graduate School are apparent enough. They take part in a large number of graduate courses; they receive a quality...
...Meeting the Jingoist" by R. W. Chubb, the leading article in the Monthly for April, is a short critical review of Norman Angell's recent war book entitled "The Great Illusion" and of Kirkpatrick's "War--What For." Using widely different arguments both writers make a plea for disarmament. Mr. Chubb praises them both although inclined to award first prize to Mr. Angell, who scores the most perfect record...
...University, receive a lion's share of attention in the Magazine. In addition to a complete record of all University sports, and the symposium on rowing just referred to, there is a leading article on "Athletics in the Schools," by Dr. J. L. Morse '87, who makes a plea for better supervision of school athletes. He urges that school boys take athletics less seriously and participate i them less strenuously. Dr. Morse, although his conclusions about the harmful effects of athletic specialization are undoubtedly logical, will probably find that his words fall on deaf ears as long...