Word: asked
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...undertakes to collect $10,000 to $12,000 per annum for use in any department. The fiscal year ends in June and we have only about $2500. It will be observed that $10,000 per annum is equivalent to an endowment of $200,000 bearing 5 percent interest. We ask you for a contribution and we desire the liberty of asking you for it every year until you form the habit of adding this to your list of annual gifts. Yale men have established a reputation for courage and persistence; let them not neglect to be liberal, especially toward their...
...allied powers" were Russia, Austria and Prussia, in league with Spain and Bourbon France. And our republic was then in its infancy, and its safety was certainly imperilled by this powerful combination of European despotisms. Can any one without a smile ask what is there now to be compared with this? Would England extend any "political system" to South america which could in any sense endanger "our peace and happiness?" When the last French Empire undertook to establish an empire in Mexico, while our Southern states were in rebellion, we were justified in resisting so obvious an attack...
...CRIMSON in reply to Mr. Roosevelt's letter necessitates an explanation of the province of the paper in this matter. The columns of the CRIMSON are suited only for those communications which confine themselves to the bearing of the question on University men and especially on Harvard men. We ask our correspondents to bear this in mind with regard to this as well as all other subjects...
...profit out of it. It happens perhaps more often in this branch of athletics than in others that the best material is often developed from men who have had no previous experience and who are not aware of their fitness for the work. It is really very little to ask of every man who is not intending to try for any other team, to join one of the squads that will meet for daily practice in the gymnasium and at least give himself and the coaches a chance to see what capacity...
...graduation, or because he is a Ph. D. he has by two or three years of advanced study made any valuable contribution to his chosen branch of learning. Now the men that have done this, and are dependent upon the general recognition of the fact have the right to ask that the degrees be raised to the standard which, or else that some new degree may be invented which will be a fair indication of what they have accomplished...