Word: appealed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fate of the petition of the students for voluntary attendance at chapel has at last been decided. The matter has been carried to the Board of Overseers, the final court of appeal, and the verdict rendered is that it is inexpedient to grant the request of the petitioners. This decision of the overseers, though not wholly unexpected, is yet a most disappointing one to those who have been prominent in getting up the petition, and by the students as a body the news of the overseers' action will be received with regret. We have done, however, all that...
...have the good name of their college at heart, to come forward and support the League by their membership. Many men refuse to join, merely because they do not believe in pledges. These are among the men who have the greatest respect for their college, and to these I appeal to give the League their support, not on the ground that it will influence their conduct for the better, but on the ground that the good name of the college may be sustained. I sincerely hope those men who at once practice total abstinence and wish their college to have...
...college department of the International Young Men's Christian Association committee has received an appeal for recognition and sympathy from an association organized in Jaffua College, Ceylon. It is the first association of Christian students in heathen lands to enter the Union...
...stated that the appeal made by the brass band for more candidates will be answered by the students, and that the trial of candidates next Thursday, will bring out some hitherto unknown performers...
...weekly journal of Harvard is again upon a sound financial basis. Our students do not, it is true, step forward with any too much readiness to support the college papers, but when once the true nature of the case is put before them, we do not have to appeal in vain. Indifference holds them back, not a disregard for the success of our journalistic enterprises...