Word: request
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...another column the superintendent of the Post Office makes a very reasonable request for greater accuracy in the addressing of students' mail. Had he asked this as a matter of convenience to the Post Office alone, he would doubtless have asked in vain; but it is not unnatural to expect that the students will pay more heed to a request which is evidently made in their own interests. An error or omission in an address is likely to mean a delay of some ten hours in the delivery of a letter...
...terms of the grant remain in Boston until next year: at that time, if Harvard asks for the return of what she has loaned, the "idea of the trustees" will be matter of entire indifference. The writer in the Tribune seems to fear that Harvard will make no such request because some of the trustees of the museum in Boston are also among the "Harvard authorities." Such a fear, however, is one which it is almost impossible to share...
...request of a number of students Professor Norton has consented to repeat here at Harvard the lectures on Dante which he gave last spring in Baltimore at Johns Hopkins University. The lectures, which will be open to the public, will probably begin in March...
...request of some of the alumni Professor Lane, during his visit to Europe last summer, sat for his portrait to the distinguished French artist, Bonnat. The portrait, which is to be presented to the University, has lately arrived and may be seen for a time at the gallery of Messrs Doll and Richards, in Park street, Boston. The likeness of the great scholar is said to be an excellent one in every...
...directors are plainly a body representing the students in the hall, elected by the students, intended merely to carry into action the will of the students. It is thus their imperative duty either to grant any request signed by so large a body of students or else in refusing to grant it, to refuse on the ground that a more intimate knowledge of the matter in hand would reverse the opinion of the signers of this request. Having taken the latter course, they owe to their constituency an explanation sufficiently sound to convert the signers of the remonstrance. Should they...