Word: asking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ask a large attendance of men at the match between the Harvard and Yale Shooting clubs this afternoon at Watertown. The distance is comparatively short and the match will be interesting...
...have recently stated that men in their courses must be prepared on the work of the first half year, leading men to think this preparation must be thorough and exhaustive. We cannot think that any professor means to examine them rigidly on the first half year, but only to ask, as has been the custom, a few general questions, if any, If such is the intention, we protest against it earnestly. If the custom in our college examinations had been to require a full knowledge in the final examinations of what has already been required in the mid-years...
...game was not called until half-past three owing to the non-appearance of John Kelly, the regular intercollegiate umpire. The captains of the two nines finally agreed to ask Upton the catcher of the Phillips Andover team to act as umpire. His decisions were entirely satisfactory. Before the game the nines each got about twenty minutes practice and both received much applause for their good work. Princeton's men seemed at this time almost sure of their ball in all fielding work. At 3.30 the game commenced amid many cheers from the Princeton bench, and a faint...
...dead-that we may be dying and yet have an abundance of real life. Real resurrection for us means the change from the rule of the flesh to the liberty of the soul. We may in the present life "attain unto the resurrection of the dead," but we must ask ourselves if we are alive, if our hopes, ambitions and affections are set in the right way. Examples are before us constantly of men who have had this resurrection-men pure, and leading lives of courage and usefulness. We may in a way understand the nobleness of their lives...
...have a first-class opening for a young man who desires to enter journalism. May we ask if you will be good enough to allow the following to be posted on your college bulletin; published in your college paper; or handed to some one whom you think a proper person? Early in September there is to be begun in New York, Philadelphia, Boston and London, the publication of a journal for young people, of a grade of St. Nicholas and the Youth's Companion, but unlike either in character of contents. It has a new field and its aim will...