Word: petitioners
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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During a five-hour session today the Yale corporation refused to grant the petition signed by a thousand graduates to leave the historical "fence" intact. Not a single member of the corporation favored granting the petition. The decision has caused much disappointment among the undergraduates and some of them are...
"Whereas, the Board of Overseers of Harvard College have laid upon the table the petition of a large number of members of the Harvard Club of New York City in favor of abolishing the restriction which prohibits the college nine from playing with other than amateur clubs; and,
We publish today the set of resolutions unanimously adopted by the members of the Harvard Club of New York at their annual meeting. The opinion of such graduates as these, men of all ages and of large experience, should have great weight with the members of the faculty. The views...
"Resolved, That we, the students of Yale University, do earnestly petition the Corporation to use the means in their power to prevent the erection of this building on the site proposed; and, be it further
"Resolved, That a committee be appointed by the chairman of this meeting to present this petition to the Corporation and to procure for it the signatures of the alumni.