Word: asks
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...want, for the sake of the football team, to ask every man in College to be very careful not to make any noise after 10 o'clock at night anywhere in Cambridge, where men who are trying for the team could possibly be disturbed by it. Sleep is absolutely essential to the welfare of the team and carelessness on anyone's part in keeping men awake may be very expensive. F. H. BURR...
...Lady" seems to have grown anaemic during summer. She needs a subcutaneous application of good red blood. In avoiding affectation, the contributors have done well, but in achieving mediocrity they are hardly to be commended. At the risk of bringing anathema upon his head, the reviewer dares to ask, Is the Advocate sufficiently democratic? The literary tradition of the College may be left to the Monthly; the Advocate should be a magazine of undergraduates, for undergraduates, and by undergraduates. Its pages and its editorial board should be doubled, for the Advocate must widen its appeal if it is to keep...
...meeting of the Athletic Committee held last evening it was voted to ask the four class presidents to appoint a committee of undergraduates to confer with the Athletic committee in accordance with the recommendation of the Faculty. Action on the question of abolishing winter sports, now before the Committee, was again postponed in order to give the undergraduates time to present their plans, as the Faculty wished...
...Shaler Portrait Fund is now $807 in cash, $350 in promises. There is still $300 more needed, so those who can afford to give more liberally are urgently asked to help in pushing this project through. The committee and its assistants are endeavoring to see every member of the class, but, of course, some men cannot be easily reached. We appeal to such men to remember that this is a class gift and a memorial to our friend and we ask them to contribute at once as much as possible...
...very important to know the views of the students on all events and policies which affect their academic life. The Governing Boards and the Faculty at Harvard can legislate to better advantage when they have before them college public opinion; but the question which they most constanty ask is whether the opinion expressed in the CRIMSON is really representative. Unless it be that it can naturally carry little weight. To make it that is the business of the board, which ought to regulate its method of securing editors with this in view. Since the personnel changes from year to year...