Word: requesting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...must request those of our readers who use our columns for the insertion of notices of meetings, dinners, etc., to exercise a little more care in making these notices as short and to the point as circumstances will permit. The notices are not collected from the box at Leavitt and Peirce's until nine o'clock every evening. The paper for the following day is all made up by that hour, and it is a great inconvenience to the managing editor to find a string of notices of absolutely unnecessary length crowding out one of the other articles, and upsetting...
...BISHOP, JR.CRICKET ASSOCIATION.- There will be an important meeting of the Cricket Association at 7.30 o'clock this evening at No. 35 Matthews Hall. As there are several matters to be discussed, the secretary would especially request all members who can possibly come to be present, especially candidates for this year's eleven. Also any men who wish to join the club will have an opportunity of doing so after the meeting...
...custom, the most important one being that, as the promenade question is in imminent danger of an adverse decision, any further disturbances would be likely to decide it unfavorably for the two lower classes. In addition the faculty offer a whole holiday if the freshmen will accede to their request. As a general thing the sentiment of the University is against giving up any of the peculiar Yale customs, but in this case the upper-classmen are all in favor of the action of the faculty...
...rested upon him. He has successfully overcome all obstacles as they have arisen, and has substantially lessened the cost of the building by enlisting the interest of many American manufacturers who have supplied material. No one else is so well prepared to speak about the building, and at my request he has prepared the following account, which he permits the committee to make a part of this report...
...cold or boiling hot water, and frequently one of these is taken from us. It is really a great shame that the condition of affairs in the bathing-room is so bad. If anyone who has any influence which could remedy this trouble chances to see this request we call upon his benevolence to do something to alleviate the evil of which we complain...