Word: asked
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...club rates we need one hundred and fifty members. Those who are carrying on the work in the college do so for the sake of the reform. It is a work which should appeal to the patriotic spirit of every American, and especially of every college man. I ask every man interested in pure and efficient government if the support of the club is not a worthy object of his consideration? Membership blanks and copies of the constitution will be funished upon application to 42 Kirkland street...
...Irving concluded: "I ask you to weigh well the advantages which may present themselves to you before you try to part with, to minimize, or to forego in any way your own individuality. Study it without being egotistic, and understanding the weak places, shun their temptations and try to protect yourself by added strength. Knowing yourself, you may learn to know others; and so in process of time you will both consciously and unconsciously learn those abiding principles of human nature and of human character which add to the knowledge and the progress of the world...
When Mr. Irving was asked to give an address to the students, it was suggested that it would probably make a very pleasant occasion if Harvard men and their friends were allowed to purchase as great a portion of the tickets for some particular evening as they wished to do. Mr. Irving and the management were favorable to the idea, and the matter was, by them, entrusted to the CRIMSON. It was thought to be the most fitting mode of procedure to ask the presidents of the two upper classes to select a committee which should put the idea into...
...committee would respectfully ask that in view of these facts they be allowed to have the use of Sanders Theatre at noon on March 15, to allow the students of Harvard to hear a lecture by the greatest living exponent of dramatic...
...with other universities, but these two societies are entirely independent and quite free to carry out, on their own responsibility, whatever plans they please, provided that these plans meet with no objection from the Faculty. If the Wendell Phillips Club originates and realizes some valuable idea, we shall not ask for a share in the credit for it. We ask the treatment from them. We desire that same the relations between the two societies should always be those of friendly and dignified rivalry...