Word: requested
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...recent lecture the Professor of the Fine Arts informed the members of his elective that he should not require them to hand in their blank books previous to the examination, and that he should request the Faculty to allow him to dispense with proctors during the examination. These remarks, coming as they did from an instructor who has always shown himself exceptionally kind and considerate in his relations to the students, as well within the recitation-room as without it, were welcomed by many as a sign that some members of the Faculty, at any rate, while desiring to raise...
...office. He therefore summoned on Monday an officer of the Hasty Pudding Club, and said that, while he had no desire to interfere with the private affairs of the society, he was obliged to ask them to discontinue the "running," because it created a public disturbance. Naturally this request caused some excitement among the members of the club, and they felt unwilling to abandon what they considered a custom of long standing. The President assures them that the custom is not an old one, and there the matter stands. Considered purely in the light of an affair between the President...
...publish, by request, a list of the Secretaries of the boat-clubs, for the convenience of those who wish to join: Holyoke, Mr. W. S. Otis, 25 Holyoke St.; Matthews, Mr. C. W. Hubbard, Matthews 41; Weld, Mr. T. M. Sloane, Weld 2; Holworthy, F. J. Stimson, Holworthy...
...best way to administer the reproof is without rudeness, and it appears to us that the sending of the head-waiter to request the removal of the obnoxious tile is a perfectly polite and gentlemanly manner of effecting this, and that it ought to be put into practice in every case where such a breach of etiquette occurs...
...average student was not able to answer completely in the space of three hours. Three hours and a half after the examination began a majority of the class was still in the examination-room, nor was the room empty when four hours were up. Now, since we were particularly requested in this examination to "pay attention to form as well as substance," we should like to request of the instructor some attention on his part to the swiftness with which the minutes pass, and also to the imperfect powers of man. This, I think, but a fair request, for, when...