Word: petitioners
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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THE Faculty of Syracuse University has granted a petition from the Senior Class, asking that speaking at Commencement be abolished.
The orator, Miss Margaret Tippet, a lady whose massive brow was partly shaded by a halo of auburn curls, and who wore a dark gray polonaise trimmed with Valenciennes lace was loudly applauded on rising to deliver her oration. As this was in Greek, we have tried to translate it...
SENIOR.[The writer of this letter has made a mistake in the use of the word "current." If he will turn to Worcester's Dictionary he will find that "current" means "now actually passing," and consequently it is incorrect when writing in April to speak of the "current month of...
AT the risk of being charged with repetition, I should like to express my disapprobation of the time of the Spring Recess. I think the Faculty would willingly change the time, if a petition could be gotten up showing the desire for a later vacation, especially as Fast Day comes...
Will not some one start such a petition?