Word: asking
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...course already taught, the courses on constitutional history, elocution, and perhaps ethics, constitutes a good nucleus to which others may in time be added. When we hear the expressions of fear from all around us of the consequences of so general and great ignorance on financial subjects, we cannot ask too much instruction on such vital principles...
...exercises. Nowadays, with eight tickets to the Chapel and five to the tree, very few men can invite a large share of their acquaintance to these the most interesting parts of the programme of the day. To be sure, there are some few extra tickets belonging to men who ask no friends to Class-Day; but their number is so small that they may be almost disregarded...
...sufficient knowledge of electives to allow of a wise choice by the students, the best plan seems to be to make use of the columns of the College papers, and by that means bring before the fellows a fair review of the different studies. But in doing so we ask that criticisms shall be just, and that the opportunity shall not be taken to find fault with instructors and electives generally, simply because they are such, or because a student finds pleasure in directing his remarks against a particular professor or course of study...
...LETTER has been read by '76 from the Sophomore Class at Harvard, asking '76 to keep up the class ball Nine, and expressing the wish that the two Sophomore Nines may meet some time again. The communication has been answered by '76, in what way we do not know; but we hope our boys were not behind Harvard in politeness, and ask them to keep up the '76 class crew, that the two crews might meet again. - Yale Record...
...present exercises in that department, few will doubt that all the students, the diligent as well as the idle, would be vastly pleased, and that the quality of the work done would be greatly improved. With such help as this given to all the classes, we could ask for nothing more but object and opportunity. The columns of our two papers are open to our essays at writing, and without denying their excellence, we may say that they would be very much better if they could command, as they would like, a stronger literary support; but for practice in speaking...