Word: requested
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...purpose to comment upon these facts, - the remarkable betting, the remarkable foul, and the remarkable accident to Mr. Lee. But, in view of these facts, it seems to me that an inquiry, which I request you to put before your College, is pertinent. Is it altogether consistent with the dignity of Harvard University to expose her athletic men to such experiences as those at Mott Haven? In other words, Are not intercollegiate athletics as inconsistent with the spirit and policy of Harvard as intercollegiate regattas or intercollegiate declamation...
...Spring Meeting of the H. A. A. will take place Saturday, May 24, at 2 P. M. The following list of events is republished by the request of the Executive Committee...
...reads as follows: "A claim of mine, made in the current month, for deduction on account of absence from February 14 to February 24, is disallowed, etc." The Directors naturally supposed that he had not handed in his petition until April, and so very properly refused to grant his request. If he will make the fact evident that he made his application in February, we have no doubt that he will be granted his allowance...
...take pleasure in reprinting, by request, the list of events for the Athletic meeting, and we again call the attention of all those who think of entering to the peculiar advantages offered this year. We see no reason why the entries should not be many, and the records better than ever before, as the date of the meeting has been postponed till after the Class Races, so that several who take part in them will be able to compete. There is now every opportunity to practise, and in the next four or five weeks we hope to see many availing...
...request of the two captains, the citizens agreed to make the boat-houses water-tight, a quality they did not possess last year. They also agreed that the space below the finish line should be unobstructed for one quarter-mile, and be patrolled by police-boats, and that the course should be buoyed by yawls anchored half a mile apart, each boat flying a red flag from a staff twenty feet high. Last year the buoys were so small as to be almost invisible to coxswains, and therefore valueless as guides. The first-mentioned method of buoying would distinctly mark...