Word: asking
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...College standard is the standard of the world. You must lay your foundations in everything first. After you have done your academic work, Harvard College calls upon you for service. One of the hardest things for a man is to preserve his balance when demands are made upon him. Ask yourself what Harvard College is. It is the result of self-sacrifice for the past 270 years. I particularly want you to remember how your life here is going to affect those at home. All that Harvard University demands of a student is that he be a gentleman...
Either captain may ask that time be taken out three times during each half without a penalty. If thereafter, however, either captain requests that time be called, his side shall be penalized by a loss of two yards for each time unless a player be removed from the game, the number of the down and the distance to be gained remaining the same as they were before the request was made. The Referee, however, may suspend play at any time at his own discretion without penalty to either side...
...ask the privilege of using your columns to suggest a plan, which it seems to me, would enable students in meagre circumstances to obtain for use in their courses, books which they would otherwise be obliged to purchase. These men have now either to make use of the reserved libraries in Gore and Harvard Halls, or they are compelled to buy all necessary books, either new, or at second-hand. The first alternative is not constantly convenient; the second, even when the books are bought at second-hand, entails more or less expense. Moreover, it is always necessary for every...
Professor and Mrs. Ostwald and the Misses Ostwald will receive their friends in Phillips Brooks House from 4.30 to 6.30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. As no special invitations have been issued, Professor and Mrs. Ostwald ask all the friends whom they have met during their stay in Cambridge to consider this announcement as a personal invitation...
RECEPTION. Professor and Mrs. Ostwald and the Misses Ostwald will receive their friends in Phillips Brooks House from 4.30 to 6.30 P. M. As no special invitations have been issued, Professor and Mrs. Ostwald ask all the friends whom they have met during their stay in Cambridge to consider this announcement as a personal invitation...