Word: ask
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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OWING to the new rule which provides that professional base-ball clubs, members of the League, shall not play with amateur clubs on League grounds, one very important source of revenue is taken from our Nine. Hence the Nine are compelled to ask this year for a larger subscription than usual in order to meet the expenses of Gymnasium practice, and of cleaning and repairing uniforms. We hope that the students will bear these facts in mind and be willing to subscribe liberally to the funds of the Nine...
...going through the most wonderful evolutions, to the delight of the children peeping through the ventilators; and in one corner two bright-eyed, rosy-cheeked girls were practising a graceful figure which I had never seen. They knew I was watching them; for I heard the light-haired one ask the other if I were not a student. The dark one appeared not to hear, at which the light one seemed to feel rebuffed, as if she had asked a forbidden question. She stopped laughing so merrily, and presently said the ice was n't at all nice...
...ask what keeps toadyism alive, the obvious answer is the desire to be popular. Frankness of expression is not compatible with a certain popularity. Nay, more, if you would be popular, you must not by your silence let it be suspected that you inwardly frown on most or much or even some of your neighbors' modes of thought and action. Silence, because men do not know how much you disapprove, is more feared than open censure, and in the uncertainty your disapproval is overestimated, and in proportion feared...
...lower classes to be obliged to look to their friends for shelter on this day, it is much worse for Seniors who wish to spread to have their plans disarranged through the unwillingness of a few students to confer a favor which, when it comes their turn to ask for a place in which to receive their friends, will be repaid them by their successors...
...comes forward with more generosity than it has yet shown, it would seem as if the class would lose this honor. The Captain of the Nine would be glad to see any Freshmen who are willing to canvass among their classmates. While speaking of trophies, we would like to ask why the boating flags have not appeared in Memorial...