Word: request
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Announcement is made in the calendar for next week of a very interesting college conference meeting. At the request of the students in charge of the college conferences the members of the Athletic Committee will undertake to explain to those who are interested in the subject - which means the whole University - the constitution, powers and objects of the Committee. In the college at large there has long existed a desire for some definite knowledge about the workings of the Athletic Committee. During the past two years there has been a steadily growing feeling that the Committee is doing a great...
...home, after a successful war, and entertained him royally. But secret plots were discovered under the mask of his hospitality, and he was put to death by Harald. Wolf and the other son Grim were forced to leave Norway and sailed for Iceland. On the way, Wolf died, having requested that his body be placed in a chest and set afloat and also that Grim should settle wherever the chest was washed ashore. The request was followed out implicitly. Grim had also two sons, one of them the hero Egil. He was a precocious youth; a bit of poetry remains...
...Trustees of the Fund request applicants for loans to observe the following rules...
Professor Charles Sprague Smith, who will begin his course of lectures on Icelandic Saga this evening is not a stranger to Harvard men. Last year he delivered a lecture at the invitation of the College Conference, and two years ago he lectured at the request of the Deutscher Verein. Mr. Smith was formerly professor of the Romance Languages in Columbia College, but in recent years he resigned that position and has devoted his time and attention since then to lecturing on the Norse Languages. Mr. Smith is especially interested in the history of Iceland; he has made a voyage there...
...there has been gross mismanagement somewhere, we, representing many graduates, some athletic men, protest against this evil, and shabby treatment we have received today in the sale of tickets. We request a remedy, and that immediately...