Word: ask
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...goodies and janitors, you make the following inquiry: "Why should the Freshmen in Matthews and Holyoke be obliged to pay the janitor exorbitant prices for work that a scout would do for at least half as much money?" and follow up the question by the assertion, "We ask this question not without a knowledge of facts...
...ASK, dear friend, a boon if thou wilt...
Leave me alone, it's all I ask...
...interest to numbers of us than the team are likely to suppose; and though there may be some who were surprised at the first match, every one was sorry for the second. The record of the Club, however, has been so good thus far, that we are inclined to ask if a match with Yale cannot be arranged this year. The novelty of an intercollegiate rifle match would cause a good deal of enthusiasm among us, and if a day could be named convenient to all parties, we think a challenge would be readily accepted...
...desire to play with elevens. He then criticises severely the action of one of the Harvard delegates, and ends by complaining that the Crimson drew its "account of the convention from partisan sources," that is, from a Harvard man, as if it would have been more natural to ask one of the gentlemen from Yale to act as our reporter! All this, however, does not exceed the bounds of decency. Of the second editorial, out of charity to the Courant, which was overcome by its feelings and is now probably repenting at leisure, we refrain from speaking; as we have...