Word: request
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...faculty of Princeton has granted the request of the Conference Committee that the gymnasium should be kept open from ten o'clock in the morning till seven o'clock in the evening...
...crew men, such meanness presumptuous; it is a poor return for the readiness with which the football management offered to divide its surplus with them. The foot-ball men want $140 to get a ten-dollar cup for each man on the team and for the substitutes. The request is a modest enough one even if they did not have a cent for buying them. When, however, they have $280, half of which they volunteer to give to the crew, it is contemptibly mean for any one to question their right to what they ask. The excuse crew men offer...
...been the custom in past years for instructors to ask for the blue-books to be used by students in the examinations. Much annoyance is caused both to students and instructor by non-compliance with this simple request. It is disagreeable for the instructor to be obliged to resort, for punishment of the offenders, to the expedients of school boy days; yet it is eminently proper that some mode of expressing displeasure of the student's action should be found. The most common way is loss of the first few minutes of the examination. But this mode of punishment makes...
...first of the series of two lectures that Mr. Lawton, at the request of the Classical Club, has consented to give before the students of Harvard University, will be given tonight in Sever 11, at 7.30 p. m. Those who heard Mr. Lawton's lectures last year at the Hawthorne Rooms will appreciate the opportunity, while those who have not heard him will do well to listen to a charming lecture on the Medea of Euripides. Mr. Lawton is a graduate of Harvard and for some years has been engaged in translating the Greek drama, a series of articles...
...college in its establishment. The first important move was to allow the nine to employ a professional coach, and following close on its heels the permission to play with professional nines. Each step has been made in accordance with the universal desire of the undergraduates and at the request of the great majority of the alumni. But while the nine has been obtaining concessions which will enable it to stand a much better chance of winning against teams of other colleges, the captain and members of the 'varsity crew have been busy overcoming obstacles which have hitherto hindered their success...