Word: asking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...ask the attention of the freshman class to the meeting tonight of candidates for the freshman eleven. It will be the first time that the athletic spirit of ninety-eight is tested, and it would give the whole College a genuine pleasure if the class should meet that test well. Much depends on the start; if a class is sluggish and half-hearted when it begins its athletic work, it has always that reputation to war against, while if at once it shows life and zest, it has always that prestige to aid it further...
...committee ask nothing unreasonable. They simply ask for such action by the members of the class as will ensure that all members have an equal chance in purchasing seats, and that no seats go to outsiders until the wants of the seniors have been supplied. It is not enough that some men should say that they could sell tickets and still come within the spirit of this rule. The whole strength of the numbering system has gone to pieces when the committee loses track of some of the tickets and if infringement commences, who can prophesy the end? If some...
...were not free agents, he said, it would be unnecessary to ask how we should choose and regulate our path in life. But we are not automatons and must work out our own destiny. In our work as students, in our social life and amusements we often magnify unimportant things and leave unnoticed the more important. It is so in religious life. We often emphasize faith in our religion and neglect works. The most discouraging part of the controversies on church questions is the magnifying of unessential things. If we would observe the true proportion of things as their natural...
...being Mrs. Hemenway's desire that said collections should be kept together and not dispersed, I write in behalf of the trustees of Mrs. Hemenway's estate, to ask if your board would see fit to give space in the Museum for the installation of the collection pertaining to American Archaeology, the installation, classification, etc., to be under the immediate direction of Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, subject to the Director of the Museum, this work to be done at the expense of the trustee of Mrs. Hemenway's estate; the ownership and absolute control of the collection to remain with...
...companionship and leisurely intercourse with intimate friends is one of the greatest services Memorial renders. The opportunity is so highly prized that many students, even when dissatisfied with the food furnished, still prefer to remain in the hall in order not to be deprived of it. When students ask that this opportunity be preserved, they ask, not that a sentimentality shall be indulged, but that a powerful and beneficial influence in their lives shall not be checked...