Word: asking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...early closing of the departmental libraries in Harvard and University halls, has caused considerable dissatisfaction among those who use these reading rooms in the evening. We have been asked to call attention to what seems to be a needlessly early hour at which men are turned out of the rooms. Upon looking into the matter it has been found that the doors are closed at ten o'clock by the yard policeman, who states that the hour might be extended to eleven o'clock without any added inconvenience, that is as far as the mere closing is concerned. Unless, then...
...meeting of the Christian Association held last night in Holden Chapel, the Rev. Washington Gladden addressed the society on the opportunities of young men and of college students in particular. He said the question which each young man must ask himself when he enters college is "what shall I do?" It is not always easy to choose the best course even in studies, and many men seem only to desire to choose the line of least resistance, a course which does not always produce the best results. The best advice is to go to work and to do what...
...part that Harvard men are playing in the progress of the Prospect Union is growing more important every year; and not only are the members of the Union glad of the instruction when it is given, but they ask for it beforehand. The call for instructors, printed in the CRIMSON earlier in the year, was the result of a direct request for instruction in those several subjects. The rooms of the Union are kept in pretty constant use during the evening, three classes often being carried on during the same hour. The evening is divided up into three hours from...
...often ask ourselves if we believe in God, if we love Him. We know that if we receive Him into ourselves that he will give us power. Sanctify yourself for the sake of thy brethren is what you will find in the Bible if you will only take it and read...
...temporal. The text found in the epistle to James. - "if there be not the works of faith, there is no faith," is not always helpful. As a help to your faith, suppose the preacher is so powerful and so eloquent that you leave the church absolutely faithless. Ask yourself if the world outside does not seem infinitely narrower, vastly changed; if the atmosphere is not heavier, and the clouds duller. Ask if you do not feel a lack in your heart which used to lend a certain elasticity to life which is now gone. If all this seems true then...