Word: petitioner
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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A petition, signed by several hundred students, has been handed to the faculty of the Institute of Technology asking for a short vacation at Christmas, instead of one day as now allowed. It was referred to a committee of the faculty, but no action has yet been taken.
Gentle reader, do not understand that we would discourage cleanliness, far from it. We simply wish to warn these bath-room monopolists of the wrath to come, if they persist in their greedy ways. However, we have not the heart to deprive them altogether of a pleasure apparently so much...
Last lecture there was a little blue-book circulating in the History 13 section, containing a petition for a list of general readings. The writer of this article put his name down on account of sheer laziness, he admits, but he saw other names that were irreproachable - names of men...
The petition which asks for a course of general reading in History 13 is one which every member of the course will do well to sign. The scarcety of reserved books bearing upon the outline now renders it almost impossible for a man to work up the course without expending...
The following petition will be circulated in History 13 to-day. "We the undersigned members of History 13, petition that a course of general readings be provided."