Word: petitioner
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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About five hundred names have been signed to the civil service reform petition recently circulated at Yale.
Upwards of 4000 persons have signed the civil service reform petition to be presented to Congress. The petition will be in circulation this week.
"Might I petition to have more heat in this room?"
"I wish," said she, "that you had returned me all my paper. As for the petition, it needs further explanation."
THE College papers have so often petitioned for new courses without achieving even the moderate success of having their petitions posted as "requiring further explanation" that we take up our stylograph with fear and trembling, even though it be only to ask the admission of the undergraduate student to a...