Word: requesting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...base ball game last week. Pennsylvania played Yale at New Haven last Tuesday and defeated her. The next day the Pennsylvania management telegraphed Harvard that the U. of P. nine had, owing to "Harvard's athletic status" this year, unanimously agreed to cancel the game. To Harvard's request for a fuller explanation, Pennsylvania made no reply...
...altogether proper that the usage should be followed in a spirit better suited to the occasion. The committee have wisely chosen the course which of all seems best fitted to the time. Every member of the senior class should do his part by complying with the request to be at the appointed place promptly...
...response to the request of several of our graduates in New York, we went to New York, met there Mr. Adee to whom we submitted the following proposition, with request that he would lay it before the Yale authorities, namely...
...money, though it comes at this late day, should have a ready response. The great trouble is that men do not give in proportion to what they can afford. It is to them especially and to those to whom the management has been unable to make a personal request that this appeal is directed. The crew is badly in need of money; without it we cannot hope for success. It remains for the college to do its share in bringing this success...
Scene 3. Simon's cheeky and hopeless request. The pieman's prompt and startling question...