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Word: asking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
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During the mid-year and final examinations, it has been the custom at the College Library to allow reserved books to be borrowed from the Reading Room for use overnight, on condition that they be returned by 9 o'clock the next morning. I want to ask those who borrow to take pains to return books promptly, so that other workers may not be deprived of their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 1/30/1907 | See Source »

...unnaturally, one interested in undergraduate writing is inclined to ask, why should not the average undergraduate story be better than it usually is? Perhaps the writers do not take the matter quite seriously enough; they are too apt to regard their stories simply as a means to the pleasures of social life on the Board, not as steps toward a more truly literary expression. The works show haste, carelessness, and a willingness to be content with a product far short of that of which they are capable. And may it not also be asked. do those who write about college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Review of Current Advocate | 1/11/1907 | See Source »

...infrequently ask me about taking up social work as a calling. Nothing is plainer to men than that the demand for good workers exceeds the supply. Most of the calls are for workers in societies for organizing charity, child-saving agencies, social settlements. But there are some calls for probation officers, welfare managers, in large stores and factories, and workers in agencies which are chiefly concerned with civics or with applying the advances of medical science to relief and prevention of need. The positions are generally subordinate ones, but sometimes head workers are wanted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 1/9/1907 | See Source »

...behalf of the undergraduates of the University we ask for the co-operation of every man to do his best to assist in keeping tickets out of the hands of speculators. H. S. THOMPSON '99, Graduate Manager. J. D. WHITE '07. G. G. BACON '08. F. H. BURR...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 11/13/1906 | See Source »

...conference on interpretation of the new football rules met in New York last Friday at the instance of the central board of officials of the American intercollegiate football rules committee. The conference has decided to ask the rules committee for an interpretation of the rule requiring a line man dropping back for a play to drop back at least five yards. Several less important rules will also be referred to the committee for interpretation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Interpretation of New Football Rules | 10/1/1906 | See Source »

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