Word: petitioners
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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The following letter has just been received from Mr. James Russell Lowell in reply to the petition which was addressed to him by the students, requesting him to lecture here. It will be remembered that this petition received between four and five hundred signatures:
It is very hard to say no to such an appeal, and it costs me a struggle to say it. I can scarce find in my vocabulary a negative soft enough and hesitating enough for the occasion. Were I living in Cambridge I should search in vain for any such...
There is a petition being circulated at Memorial asking that the quality of the food and service be improved.
Suggestions made by Professor Drummond and words spoken by some of the preachers to the University have led to a desire on the part of a number of students to make some effort toward helping to uplift the lives of the masses in the great city so near us. Encouraged...
This petition has met with the following answer:-