Word: requesting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...library? I would have a systematic canvas of the college, as in the case of the prayer petitions, and when we present to the overseers a reasonable petition signed by every man in college, the board can not do less than give a thoughtful consider to a request so unanimously presented...
...custom, and so are excusable for the unintentional breach of faith. North Avenue is the best street in Cambridge to run on, as its side-walks are wider than those on any other. So it can be no sacrifice on the part of the men to follow out this request of the Cambridge people...
...hour examinations to take place on Friday or Saturday of this week, has been made in some courses. If these hour examinations are given for the purpose of detaining students in Cambridge, we deplore the motives of the instructors. If they are given with no such intention, we would request, in behalf of the men in the courses, that the time be changed to an earlier date. There are many men who, usually faithful in attendance at the lectures, are accustomed to leave college a few days before the expiration of the term. This enables them to reach home...
...committee would repeat its request that all men pay their entrance fees immediately...
...greater portion are purchased with the income of the various bequests left to the University for buying books. The only American publishing house which regularly presents the library with its publications is that of Ticknor and Co., of Boston. Useful works of other houses are purchased at the request of instructors and those connected officially with the library. Among the most recent acquisitions is an assortment of books in French, chiefly on educational and historical subjects. A large box of German books was received two or three weeks ago, consisting of philological works. and Greek and Latin classics. These invoices...