Word: asking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...reading the article in the CRIMSON on "Illiterate Collegians" you ask "Who is to blame?" Allow me to write and even if I am a poor ignorant woman that left school in the sixth grade of the "Grammar School" to earn my own living so please pardon my ignorance. Before my son went to Harvard I have heard several times of young men that did not make good, that in some cases Harvard turns out "educated fools." Well, I worked hard for twenty years to send my son to Harvard feeling that where I had nothing in the line...
There is no one who has not felt the thrill, the horror of the European war. At first almost impossible of comprehension, we have gradually come to consider it not only a reality but a common-place. Yet at some time every American must have asked himself whether he too would give his life in case our country should ask it. If we have had near relatives and friends who have volunteered or have already fallen it may have been even harder to sit still as a mere spectator of the most tremendous and disastrous war in history...
...satisfactorily settled on any idealistic basis, without the use of force? The number may be large, but the ranks would be noticeably depleted if it was common knowledge that the united Mexican people if invaded could easily wipe out all of the regular army we could send there, and ask, for more. There are about 185,000 men under arms there now, and while our troops are much better, the difference in quality would not make our maximum of 35,000 anywhere near their equal...
Petitions have been signed by more than fifty Sophomores asking that the question of serving beer at social gatherings of the class be put to a vote at the next class election. These petitions merely ask that the question be voted on and do not take sides in the matter. The Student Council will act upon it at the meeting of the executive committee Tuesday night...
...these men do what they would not tolerate for an instant in their "outside" activities. They assume their grade is merely a provisional one which can be raised by a little personal persuasion. Tacitly, they accuse the marker of discrimination against them, in the very breath in which they ask for a personal favor. And yet these men would be the last to admit or desire "pull" in their other work. Mark-pulling is a little more inexcusable than any other kind...