Word: request
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...conference committee at Princeton have sent in their resignation owing to a lack of consideration for a request for leniency toward several sophomores...
...post-office authorities again urgently request all new-comers to the university to leave their addresses at the post-office. By so doing they will save much delay in the delivery of their letters...
...CRIMSON has a report of the vote of the faculty, but at the request of the college authorities will not publish it till some definite action is taken by the Board of Overseers...
CLASS OF 1888.- The '88 class dinner will be held at the Parker House, Monday evening, June 25, at seven o'clock. A book will be placed at Bartlett's and only those who sign before Class Day, June 22, will be admitted. The Class Committee earnestly request that all who have not subscribed to the fund will do so at their earliest convenience. One fifth of all subscriptions must be apid before June 20, or it will be impossible to hold the dinner...
Again, every senior is regularly assaulted, by persons who have no kind of claims, for Class Day tickets. Each senior thinks, perhaps, that one or two yard tickets will make no difference. At any rate, he does not like to refuse a polite and seemingly slight request. If each senior gives away only two tickets in that way, some five hundred people who are "nobody's friends" come to Class Day and increase the too large crowd. Giving seniors a sufficient pretext for refusing such request for tickets was another reason for making the phrase so sweeping...