Word: asking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Again, the multitude is ignorant, and if Christ pitied and taught the ignorance of the people two thousand years ago, how would He feel in the terrible ignorance of New York? You ask, "Have they not public schools that will give them at least a saving conception of what an education is?" You think that the best schools are where they are most needed; but instead of this, as soon as the unlearned multitude comes to a neighborhood, the churches and schools forsake it. In the parts of New York where most is needed least is given...
...tempted oftentimes to ask, after hearing "the Harvard spirit" of sincerity and honor extolled, whether this spirit can be said to be really distinctive of Harvard, - whether it is not, after all, a fiction for which the college seal is largely responsible. Such doubts are suggested less by occasional violations of honor in the college life than by the difficulty of believing that there is anything about a constantly changing community like ours, which should really put a higher premium upon sincerity than is done in the world at large...
...believe we voice the sentiment of a great majority of students when we ask the Corporation that so long as is possible the teams be allowed to use the old field...
...regret that I can not see students at my office before eleven o'clock on Tuesday of this week and on Tuesday of next week; I must also ask students not to come to my house this week, on account of sickness in the family...
...flagrant abuse of the privileges of discussion in one of the economical courses yesterday induces us to ask most earnestly that men shall not give themselves free rein in discoursing on their opinions when discussion is asked for. This undue talking kills any natural discussion. It not only engrosses the time, but it so disgusts sensible men that they are loath to speak a word themselves in fear of putting themselves on a plane with those who are so prodigal of their words...