Word: request
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...astronomical observatory submitted its annual report to the visiting committee on Jan. 10. An urgent request is made for a fire proof building for the records of observations, valuable instruments and especially the collection of about 27.000 glass photographic plates representing the stars and spectra of both the northern and southern heavens, the results of observations in Peru. California and Cambridge. These are now stored in a frame building, the only one available where they could be destroyed by fire in a few minutes. Besides the plates there is a large collection of manuscripts which if once destroyed could never...
Swarts, L. S., sang at the concert by special request. A magnificent dinner was given the men after the concert by the University Club, and after the dinner the club left on a special car for Pittsburg. By this time the men were thoroughly tired of travelling and were very glad when they reached Pittsburg late in the afternoon...
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...Advocate anticipates us in a request which we feel is worth the consideration of every man who is interested in doing something for Harvard. We refer to the editorial calling upon students to remember during the vacation the effort which their committee is making towards raising $150,000 for a new Library Reading Room. This is a matter which concerns every Harvard man, and, while the committee are doing all they can to obtain the requisite sum, that does not imply that they have no need of co-operation from the great body of students in general and from every...
...request of the Harvard Athletic Association to be granted permission to compete in the games of the I. C. A. A., to be held in New York on the last Saturday in May, 1891, came before the committee on the regulation of athletic sports at its regular monthly meeting last Monday evening. This request was not refused. But a committee of two was appointed to confer with the Executive Committee...