Word: request
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...instruction at the University of Vermont, beginning February 15 and ending June 30. The services of men from 18 to 45 years of age being desired for this course of instruction. The Department Signal Officer of the Northeastern Department, 25 Huntington avenue, Boston, has authority from Washington to request the induction by local board of suitable candidates and to have them sent to Burlington...
...arrangement will demand much hard work on the part of both students and faculty in order to accomplish the required amount of work in the shorter time. It has been established in accordance with the request of President Wilson that the colleges shall not omit or diminish any portion of the training which it is their patriotic duty to continue. Brown and Pennsylvania State authorities feel that the students ought to be able to enter on various forms of service at the earlier date, if it is quite possible for them to do so by a little more effort...
...clock this evening the drawings for Yard rooms for the College year of 1918-19 will be made, and until that time Juniors may file their applications. Unusually few members of the class of 1919 had, up to last night, complied with the request of their committee and the University authorities to provide for their own possible future needs by petitioning for these rooms; why, it is difficult to understand. Nine out of every ten men now in College have no definite idea of where they will be next fall. It is altogether within the bounds of possibility that...
...request has been made for some figures relative to the proposed daylight-saving plan. I submit a rough calculation of the fuel which would be saved by extinguishing lights one hour earlier each night. This would be the main item in the direct saving, for the same amount of heat would be required, whatever the hours of beginning and ending work, if the length of the day is to be the same. This calculation does not pretend to be exact. From the nature of the case it cannot be, but it will serve as a basis...
Although we shall readily respond to any request of the Administration, yet we do not approve the latest measure. Holidays are often welcome, but five in succession and then ten more, on a week, are excessive. To cut the knot into which railroads and fuel have been tied Mr. Garfield demands that all business cease. Without heeding, or else deliberately disregarding the counsel of local administrators, the central head has wildly adopted this scheme. Suddenness intensifies the radicalism or the more, made, apparently, in a desperate attempt to wipe out the ever-increasing fuel difficulties. Though an effort to remedy...