Word: petitioners
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Court. The petition was for a writ of certiorari to quash the proceedings of the Park Board in taking a tract of land belonging to the Bussey Institution farm for a public playground. The case is an interesting one and unusual in several particulars. It was contended by the petitioner that the commissioners had violated the statute authorizing them to take land for such purposes as public playgrounds. The question was whether the statute should be interpreted to mean that the Park Commission should not take more than $200,000 worth of land in one year, or that they should...
In response to a petition of the students, Warren House Library will be opened regularly at 8.30 o'clock instead of 9.
In support of the claims made by the editorial much can be said. Bishop Brooks was not opposed to the use of tobacco, and the petition of the Graduate Club shows that the action of the committee is not popular even with the clubs for which the House is primarily...
The students of the University of Michigan have presented a petition to the faculty requesting that work for the intercollegiate debates be allowed to count towards a degree.
Students who wish to add any of the following courses to the list which they submitted last October, must petition for a change of electives.