Word: asking
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...operative Society has been a trading concern carried on by a close corporation. With the exception of one year, the persons elected to office in the Society have been nominated by their predecessors in office; there have been no nominations from the members at large. The Directors now ask that the Society be made in law, what it has been in fact,--a close corporation...
...reorganization the injustice of their action would not have been so great. As a matter of fact, however, they accompanied this report with an argument in favor of its adoption. In all justice then they should have included the argument of the minority against the change. I must ask the courtesy of the CRIMSON for the publication of a few considerations not yet advanced...
...suggestion was made for the removal of the main store with a still greater increase, and salaries were voted to some of the directors, amounting for the current year to about $1000. So far as the writer can remember these propositions were advocated only by those who now ask complete control. Further the proposed plan promises still another salaried office, that of Treasurer. The salary for this office is not announced. The Society has no guarantee that this will be all or that other salaries will remain at their present amounts. Control is one of the essentials of co-operation...
...furnish the required field, for by their very nature they are limited in numbers and restricted by elections. Hence the need to you of this house for meeting each other, for meeting your teachers, who would gladly see you more freely, and for meeting the older graduates, who ask for the sunshine of your young, fresh years. One common meeting-ground we already have...
Harvard students, we ask for you every joy and every blessing which has fallen to our lot, and we ask of you higher aims and hopes than ours, together with better work and greater achievements, for your problems will be harder and your tasks greater than ours have been...