Word: request
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...request of the class, the Trustees have voted to omit the Junior Exhibition. There will be no Senior vacation this year...
...guess that's so," broke in Renardy. "And now, aged phrenologist, were I master of these spacious apartments, I should first entertain you with biscuits and sherry, and then request you to bestow your valuable presence elsewhere. As the matter stands, let me refer you to this gentleman, who has been eagerly waiting till you were at leisure and he could pour into your sympathetic ear something that's on his mind...
THERE is a rumor current, that, on his entrance upon office, the new steward of Memorial Hall requested of his predecessor a copy of the bill-of-fare by which, during the late regime, the table had been regulated; a request which the latter refused to comply with, unwilling to give over into the hands of a rival a work which he had been more than two years in perfecting. The students fully support Mr. Farmer in this decision...
...inserting - some of them occasionally and others regularly - items of news under such headings as "Harvard University Gossip," "College Notes," and so forth, most of which are either strictly personal or else entirely false. If we might make a suggestion to such exalted directors of public opinion, we would request them to confine their items to occurrences at the police-stations and court-rooms, in which, no doubt, their readers are more interested than in the doings of "college boys...
...petition sent to the Corporation, asking for a spring vacation, has not yet been heard from. It seems that the Faculty ask only for the whole of Fast Day week, - a week at present partly broken up, - which is certainly a very modest request. But there is some fear that if this week is allowed us, a week will be taken from the summer vacation, - that long recess which has lately been one of our greatest glories. A number of men who live beyond the Ohio are induced to come to Cambridge, in preference to any other Eastern college...