Word: begging
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...beg you to put down my name as a subscriber to the proposed memorial at Harvard of Phillips Brooks for the sum of $1000. Primarily I am tempted to make this gift out of love for Phillips Brooks and from recognition of the great work he did for us as a people and for all humanity...
...second suggestion would beg still earlier time for the taking out of reserved books...
...pure elections again neither party was blameless. The Southern Democracy had used revolutionary means of overthrowing the carpet-beg rule which could not be altogether justified, but on the other hand the national Republican committee had been in the hands of such men as Quay, and Dudley with the generally known results...
GENTLEMEN-I beg leave to call the attention of graduates who may feel some interest in the department of Geology of Harvard College to the fact that an effort is now making to secure the sum of $15,000 to meet the needs of additional instruction during the next five years...
...further we beg to say that the terms of your present challenge not only would never have been agreeable to us, but our previous negotiations must have made you aware that we would not accede to its terms. It is substantially what we flatly refused in the convention...