Word: requesting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...flower is best studied by means of schedules - graphic representations of the arrangement and plan of the parts, from which the species can readily be found in any botany. The use of these schedules trains in the pupil the faculties of observation and comparison. At the request of some of the audience some views of the California trees were shown after the lecture...
...tumbling. It was a very close decision which the judges rendered in favor of Farquhar. He was lighter on his feet than Earle and more graceful. Earle, on the other hand, had a greater variety of movements. Mr. Bowler gave a very pretty exhibition of tumbling at the request of the committee in charge. His movements were very difficult, combining, as they did, almost every conceivable form of tumbling, but they were all executed with remarkable ease and grace...
...accordance with the request of a special committee appointed last year for this purpose, the philosophical faculty of Yale University has inaugurated a plan greatly extending post graduate and more strictly university work in that institution...
Your petitioners having learned that a bill to place the United States naval observatory under civilian control, and to appoint an astronomer its chief director, has been brought to the attention of Congress, earnestly request that this measure shall receive your friendly consideration...
...been coming in this autumn to pay off the debt, the treasurer instead of resigning the entire debt as in previous years, to his successor, remained treasurer of the "debt fund" and has included those accounts with those of the crew last year. This was done at the especial request of some of the graduates...