Word: asking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ask you, and through you the many users of the Widener Library, to help us keep the building in good condition. For example--almost two thousand persons pass in and out of the north door and up and down the broad steps every day. It is natural that some should drop matches or cigarette stubs or scraps of paper as they go. But if everyone would use the receptacle at the top of the steps, placed there to hold such odds and ends, it would greatly improve the approach to the building. Moreover, tobacco, when wet by rain, makes...
...desiring to take advantage of this instruction should report on board the U. S. S. Kearsarge at either of these two periods, ask for the Officer-of-the-deck, and state that he wishes to join one of the classes to be organized at that time...
...conflicting views of honor and duty is set forth in Mr. Carpenter's "The Greater Fear." The hero is forced by his fiancee to decide between apparent cowardice and, the author implies, certain brutality. Might there not have been a third way out, the reader is tempted to ask? Mr. Moyse discusses "the Episode Play" with greater sympathy than it usually finds at the hands of the critics; he insists that it is a genre distinct both from the ordinary drama and from the motion picture...
...quality of this brief anthology is surprisingly fine: surprisingly, though one had been prepared, by Mr. Noyes and others, to find it good, and unusually good. The technique is not everywhere faultless; but in what poet, save the very greatest, does one find it so? Ask the scholars. The point of view is prevailingly the point of view of youth; but it is not anywhere naif, or impertinent, or pseudo-cynical. The literary vices of youth are miraculously absent. The tone is curiously sustained, too, without monotony; as if the contributors had been real collaborators, such brothers-in-blood...
...Every undergraduate and other member of the University should ask himself squarely the question: Have I any right not to go to one of these Camps? Except in exceptional instances, if he faces the issue squarely, there can only be one answer. The men who go will find themselves amply rewarded, in the sense of duty done and the experience they will have. The men who do not, except for unavoidable cause, should feel uncomfortable, and be made to feel...