Word: asking
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...worked great changes in the attitude of the men, and many of them have now become actively interested in rowing clubs after graduation. From this body of men the new rowing organization has emanated and on them it will depend for its active support in the future. What they ask and what they must have is an opportunity to meet in competition others of their kind who have had the same rowing experience and whose ideals of the sport are similar to their own. The local regattas of the various associations do not exactly fill the needs of these...
...CRIMSON of May 26 it is stated that a committee of Directors found, on making enquiries looking to a lease of a certain property for a term of years, that the Society was not considered a very desirable tenant. On asking a member of the above committee for information on this point I was told that a certain man had refused the Society unless it was incorporated. Feeling that there might be some mistake, I went to the man who had refused to rent to the Society and told him what I had heard. He declared that he had said...
...Society, they cannot guarantee their employees that reasonable permanence of employment that is the right of every capable employee at present; for example, I should feel in duty bound to point out this weakness in the position of the Directors, to any employee of the Society who should ask me whether he should accept a chance to better himself by entering the employment of some one else...
Since the directors of the Harvard Co-operative Society ask for discussion upon their plan of incorporation, a few words may not be out of place from one who has been almost continuously a member since the foundation of the society, was at one time a director, and has paid attention to its affairs for some years...
...accounts which they intend to publish are to be thorough and detailed: in the past there was a period of several years when those accounts were kept secret, to the great detriment of the Society. Again what opportunities will there be for the examination of complaints? The proposed trustees ask us to give up our property in order that it may be made more available: can they not tell us in detail how they mean to administer...