Word: petitioner
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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The two upper classes of the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale have got up a petition for a four years' course. It has with few exceptions met with decided approval. The freshman class has not yet been canvassed. Later the petition will be placed under the management of a committee...
The vote of the Administrative Board is as pleasing to students as we have reason to hope the petition of the undergraduates volunteering to discountenance in future the use of firearms and explosives, was to the Board.
At a meeting of the Administrative Board of the College held last evening to consider the petition of the undergraduates to deal leniently with the students who were detected in the use of firearms on the night of January 26, the following vote was passed:
"The Administrative Board of Harvard College, after a careful consideration of the petition and pledge of the undergraduates regarding the recent disturbance in and about Harvard Square, is glad to accept the co-operation of the students in the effort to preserve order and the good repute of the University...
The text of the petition as submitted to the Board with the signatures of about eight hundred undergraduates is as follows: