Word: petitioner
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This is the way some of our unfeeling contemporaries describe our great petition for us. "The petition for voluntary non-attendance at prayers of the Harvard students."
Inquiries have been frequent, of late, as to the fate of the petition for the abolition of compulsory attendance at prayers, which created such a stir among the students some five weeks ago. We would say that the task of preparing this document for presentation to the authorities has been...
A few days ago we expressed our surprise at the manner in which the committee chosen by the students to draw up a petition to the faculty for the retention of foot ball, had performed their work. We regret that a better acquaintance with the facts has not caused us...
The prayer-petition is now completed and it will soon be sent before the faculty. The petition was only circulated among the students of the collegiate department, yet it has received over 900 signatures.
We think, however, that the circumstances which led to this decision should be thoroughly understood. The committee which was chosen at the mass meeting of the students to prepare a petition to the faculty; offering to play with amended rules and to make such changes as seemed necessary, has fulfilled...