Word: asked
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...street rather than on the sidewalk and shall wear while running either trousers or woollen running tights and long stockings. Since these orders were given in deference to reasonable complaints through the city authorities in regard to the use of Cambridge sidewalks as running tracks for students, we earnestly ask all students, whether members of teams or not, to comply with them...
...recollect how Sir Henry Maine says that all early codes were marked by an inflexible rigidity, because their rules were thought to have come down from Heaven itself. To most football players the suggestion of a radical change in the game seems about as impious as to ask a Priest of Menu to say his prayers without washing his feet...
...ask you to call the attention of the students to the necessity of having their mail properly addressed as to street and number? This will avoid many unnecessary delays to them and will be a great relief to the clerks at this office...
...throw myself on your generosity. I am jealous of the credit of American sports, and I ask you to join all your efforts to say that bitterness and hatred shall cease. This spirit should be banished from any field where college men meet...
Secondly, in answer to the extravagant language of "Senior," I would like to ask who holds the stronger position, those who confine their interest in athletics to railing at a scrub team for an unfortunate choice of a name, or those who in an unorganized state of a sport organize themselves and take the trouble and expense to secure games with teams, thus giving an impulse to a more advanced growth and organization of this sport in years to come...