Word: request
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Mathematical Aptitude Test, New Lecture Hall. Students who have not taken the Mathematical Aptitude Test or an equivalent (Mathematics, Beta or Gamma), will receive in their registration envelopes a request that they take this test. Special arrangements will be made for such students who must also take the Scholastic Aptitude Test...
Back in 1916, Captain Constant Cordier, U. S. A., was detailed to Cambridge at the urgent request of President Lowell, and he supervised the first R. O. T. C. courses given here. Most of the actual instruction was by regular Harvard Faculty members, such as Professor Julian L. Coolidge '95, who last year retired as Master of Lowell House. These professors had received training during the previous summer at Platisburg, and were considered qualified to give military instruction...
...fleecy clouds, beside the sparkling blue streams that wound beside the road, against the dark and light greens of the north country foliage, the President looked over the 94,000 officers and men of the First Army of the U. S. The Army paid no mind to his request about saluting. Eight times in the six-hour ride through St. Lawrence County's rolling country the long Presidential motorcade pulled up in front of stiffly assembled Army divisions. Eight times the President heard the 21-gun salute followed by ruffles and flourishes; eight times he sat at attention...
...story that a New Deal spokesman had discussed the question with a representative of Wendell Willkie. The story: Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish got in touch with Russell Davenport of Wendell Willkie's staff, suggested that if Mr. Willkie would make no public criticism, President Roosevelt might request Congress to release aged U. S. destroyers that Britain needs...
Next day Union Securities, following the rules of the Exchange, asked permission of the Exchange's Committee on Member Firms to sell the Kennecott at |of a point under the last sale after the close of business that day. The committee passed the request along to the Committee on Floor Procedure. There it ran into Chairman Robert Stott, who was vexed at seeing so much rightful Exchange business done off the floor. He did some fast telephoning. Back to Union Securities went word that the Exchange could & would handle the sale...