Word: asking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...ask leave to announce through your columns that, at the instance of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Corporation and Board of Overseers have rescinded the rule requiring two years of resident study at this University of every candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy or Doctor of Science. The minimum residence for those degrees is now made one year, this period being prescribed by the statutes for all candidates for ordinary degrees...
...closed at 6 o'clock because the next day was a holiday. Now I believe the Gymnasium should have been open that night as usual, because a greater number of men than usual wished to use the bath room that night. I even would go so far as to ask that the Gymnasium be open on all holidays and also on Sundays. These are days of recreation; and many of us would enjoy our recreation best on the floor of the Gymnasium. At any rate the bath room ought to be open so that the 1000 students who room...
...were to ask the manager of a leading paper for his most popular news the answer, Dr. Sargent said, would probably be athletic sports. The subject of athletics, however, has not been understood until recently; nor has the best method of training been investigated...
...appeal has come from the Superintendent of the Chinese Sunday School in Boston for twenty-five more teachers from Harvard. Every week between thirty and forty Chinamen ask in vain for some one to teach them, and their disappointment discourages many others who would otherwise be regular pupils...
Inviting you to all that is beautiful and noble, I ask you to follow with me the history and literary and literary development of my country. The first striking figure in Russia's history is Peter the Great. He marks the moment in the nation's life when her own his orical development was augmented by the outside influence of other nations. He shatters the wall separating Russia for 700 years from the rest of the world. But Peter's name marks one transition moment. The personality of the Empress Catherine II seems to absorb the entire eighteenth century...