Word: ask
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...state of our entries in such weather as this is enough to try the patience of more angelic dispositions than we boast of possessing in Weld. Why, we would ask, are not we favored with a furnace as well as the inhabitants of those other equally modern buildings, Holyoke and Matthews? The frigid air penetrates our walls as well as our doors and windows, and even our grates, which are acknowledged to be of a peculiar make, are not proof against this combined attack of the wintry blast. To leave open our outer doors is an utter impossibility, that...
...University in a grievous state, may be reckoned a certain laxity about money-matters. The man who subscribes five dollars to help the crew, the nine, or what not, intends, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, to pay the money. He is not pleased, however, to be asked to pay it, and does not himself consider, nor do others generally consider, that he has done anything very much out of the way if his subscription is never paid. This, we submit, is not as it should be. A promise to pay is a promise that no man ought...
...information that comes in your way. Reading, I know, is often a bore; but it is not difficult to supply its place with the aid of the American one-sidedness of some talkative old specialist. If you want to know something about a legal point, you had better ask a question or two, and start off an amiable lawyer on his profession. If you want some information about art, do the same with an artist. And in general, it will pay to get out of your fellow-beings all the information that they will give you. If you can make...
...petition sent to the Corporation, asking for a spring vacation, has not yet been heard from. It seems that the Faculty ask only for the whole of Fast Day week, - a week at present partly broken up, - which is certainly a very modest request. But there is some fear that if this week is allowed us, a week will be taken from the summer vacation, - that long recess which has lately been one of our greatest glories. A number of men who live beyond the Ohio are induced to come to Cambridge, in preference to any other Eastern college...
...having four of these preliminary trials in one week. The object of each of the four examinations has tests of knowledge, and their object in pointing out the proper way of getting up the subjects, are then both alike unattained. It is a simple matter for an instructor to ask whether his division as any good reason for preferring to have their examination come one week or another. Let us hope that more of them will try the effect of putting such a question...