Word: petitioners
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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In its last number the Advocate is mistaken in saying that the O. K. petition asks for the compulsory roll-call in the morning. The petition simply suggests that as a measure of discipline a roll-call would be better than prayers.
The prayer petition will not be sent to the faculty and overseers until after the mid-years.
The Law School prayer petition received fifty-five names out of a possible seventy. It has been sent to the petition committee.
The signatures to the prayer petition are again beginning to flow in: there are now nearly 900 in all.
The Williams Fortnight contains the following Harvard notes: "The Advocate has been adopted as a text book in the English Lit course. - The faculty are at present sitting on the new petition for voluntary prayers. - A freshman has been suspended for cutting his teeth. - Beside small-pox, several cases of...