Word: plead
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...small upper room in Harvard Hall; there were absolutely no facilities, and I formed a committee, consisting of Francis Blake, of transmitter fame, Percival Lowell, the astronomer, and myself, to raise a fund for a laboratory. I wished to add Mr. Alexander Agassiz to this committee but he plead his absorbing interest in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. After a time, a beginning having been made, Mr. Agassiz joined us and represented the need of a laboratory to Mr. Coolidge I shall never forget the joyous note in which Mr. Agassiz told me that Mr. Coolidge had agreed to give...