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When the plan was finished, the resolution asking for executive power was again brought up, and the debate on it was long and animated. It finally became evident that the meeting considered such a request as inexpedient at present, and that it might " seriously handicap all conferences in the future," as one gentleman forcibly expressed it. The motion was accordingly lost...
President White, of Cornell, has requested the students not to smoke upon the campus or grounds. The Cornell Sun indulges in the hope that certain professors will not consider themselves exempt from this gentlemanly request...
...fear that some of the wisdom of the "sarpint" lay behind this Eton boy's request. Are there no trots at Eton for a man to consult when he is "stuck" in Greek? We should like to see that guileless youth's collection of autographs before we believe his little tale...
...Curtis, L. S. kindly consented to coach the senior and junior crews yesterday afternoon, at the request of the captains of those crews...
...regulation referred, to I now transmit to you, which the corporation and overseers of the university request you to publish for the information of all concerned...