Word: asking
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Commission in 1894, but since the present project is so radically different from the one then considered, and since so many and important changes have taken place in the conditions which bear on the practicability of this scheme, it seems reasonable after the lapse of over six years to ask for this new commission...
...Harvard Union must be self-supporting. It is evident therefore that we must be able to get ten dollars apiece as dues from the members. The committee, however, hope that the number of graduate and life members will be so large that it will not be necessary to ask for the whole of this amount. They suggest, accordingly, that there be an admission fee of $5.00 to be paid by all resident members of the Union, and that the trustees have the right to demand dues of the undergraduate members later in the year to an extent not exceeding...
...violent ringing is heard. M. Pontbicket, a glove manufacturer, comes out from his room, half asleep, and opens the door. Dardard, the "jeune homme presse," from Bordeaux, rushes in, dressed in his best clothes. He asks if Mr. Pontbicket had not gone to such and such a place that evening; if he did not sit in No. 13, second row, first gallery; and if his daughters had not been there with him. Pontbicket answers in the affirmative. It then develops that Dardard saw Mile. Pontbicket that evening, fell in love with her, and has come to ask for her hand...
...probably the first to suggest the plan of having uniform examinations. The subject has been brought up several times since then, but nothing was done about it until December, 1899, when the Association of Colleges of the Middle States elected a committee to draw up regulations, and to ask the co-operation of all colleges in that district. The regulations have been in print for some months, but the attitude of the colleges towards the plan was not published until last Friday...
...come men who will not need these sacraments; they may keep in touch with God without them. Toward these men there should be no false intolerance. Church sacraments have their definite spheres of influence, and after all, they are but symbols of the real heart worship. Christ does not ask, and men need not ask, that all should necessarily observe church rites; what he does ask is that men shall dedicate their lives to Him and make not merely church services but every form of their daily work holy and acceptable sacraments...