Word: petitioners
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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A petition is in circulation and being largely signed, asking to have Mr. Ferris salaried by the college, that more men may be able to take boxing lessons at the reduced rates.
A petition is being circulated to the effect that Mr. E. J. Ferris, who has ionstructed many students in boxing, be employed by the college at a regular salary which he will receive as part compensation for his services, his regular charges to students being thereby diminished one half. This...
The prayer petition will be distributed to the students on Wednesday or Thursday next.
The freshmen should bestir themselves about electing two of their number to the Conference Committee. According to the rules of that body "two freshman delegates shall be elected before the close of the second week after the Christmas recess." The candidates must be balloted for at a time and place...
...school and in all other departments of the university, while the abolition of compulsory attendance upon Sunday services at church, and the remission twice a week of compulsory attendance upon prayers, already conceded, leave no logical ground for the retention of further compulsion in religious matters. In fact the petitioners have the argument all on their side, and we imagine that, if their request should be denied, the authorities would find it decidedly embarrassing to 'state at length reasons for such rejection,' as they are asked to do. The truth is that compulsory attendance upon prayers is a survival...