Word: requesting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard Union has succeeded in obtaining the consent of Gov. Russell to preside at the joint debate with Yale. There will be no decision made on the merits of the debate; this is done at the request of the Yale Union as they said they could not get a member of their faculty to come up here. The committee in charge of the tickets will distribute them to the different members of the University in as fair and unprejudiced a way as is possible. No admission will be charged as the Union has raised $100 towards defraying the expenses...
...Herford will speak in Sever 11 this evening, by special request, on "Some Differences between American and English Life." Dr. Herford's position in the community is sufficient to warrant an interesting conference, and he is eminently qualified to treat this subject, being an Englishman by birth and having spent many years in this country. This is the last time Dr. Herford will speak before the undergraduates, as his official connection with the college ends this week, and he returns next month to England. It is unfortunate that the conference comes on the same night as the Glee Club Concert...
...made by a cultivated Englishman who has lived among us long enough really to know us; and it is made particularly interesting for Harvard men because Dr. Herford has worked among us during the past year and a half. Dr. Herford speaks of this subject at the special request of the committee in charge of the college conferences. It will be very unfortunate if such a man speaks to only a few men, and it is certainly to be hoped that enough men are free from engagements to insure him a good-sized audience...
...each graduate from whom an individual request by letter is received (signed with his own name and class) between Nov. 1st and 15th, send not more than two tickets. Not over 500 tickets to be thus disposed of, and these tickets to be for the sections each side of and next to the centre sections...
...Herford will speak upon this subject by special request...