Word: asking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...substitutes. The request is a modest enough one even if they did not have a cent for buying them. When, however, they have $280, half of which they volunteer to give to the crew, it is contemptibly mean for any one to question their right to what they ask. The excuse crew men offer for the position they have taken is that every cent that can be obtained is needed by the crew. It is true enough that the crew will need a great deal of money, but it does not signify that on this account it should invade...
...football men have well deserved cups-far better than they ask for-and we hope the class of Ninety-two is too fair-minded and generous not to respond to their request heartily and freely...
...states of Greece that the people came to consult the oracle at Delphi, but from states situated far away. There came to the shrine people in every rank of life. Kings sent their envoys with rich presents to seek aid from the oracle, and states sent their ambassadors to ask aid in the direction of public affairs. The temple could not but become immensely wealthy with such a revenue continually pouring into it. The riches excited the cupidity of Xerxes at the time of the Persian invasion, and it was his object to plunder the temple. At this time...
...been the custom in past years for instructors to ask for the blue-books to be used by students in the examinations. Much annoyance is caused both to students and instructor by non-compliance with this simple request. It is disagreeable for the instructor to be obliged to resort, for punishment of the offenders, to the expedients of school boy days; yet it is eminently proper that some mode of expressing displeasure of the student's action should be found. The most common way is loss of the first few minutes of the examination. But this mode of punishment makes...
Dear Sir:- The editors of the CRIMSON, convinced of the desire among the instructors and students of Harvard College to have the Library lighted during the evening, and confident that the Corporation will think favorably of the plan if it is brought directly before their notice, ask your co-operation in presenting the following petition to the Corporation...