Word: requests
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...residents of Holworthy Hall recently petitioned the Resident Executive Board for the privilege of placing benches on the brick sidewalk in front of the building at their own expense. At the last meeting of the Board the request was granted; and the benches, which are to be reserved exclusively for Seniors, were put in place yesterday morning...
Through the Assignments Committee, which has been managed by F. S. Montgomery '08, about 75 men have found social service work to do, such as managing boys' clubs of many kinds, coaching teams, conducting children's home libraries, etc. At the request of the Faculty Committee which exercises supervision over all Phillips Brooks House activities, Montgomery and J. H. Stannard '08 made an exhaustive investigation of the amount and results of volunteer philanthropic work done by members of the University. This showed a total of 152 men working in 27 institutions during the year, not including entertainment troupes...
...stage throughout the play, and in their choral odes express the popular feeling of the men of Argos in regard to the events portrayed there. Agamemnon soon returns from Troy, bringing in his train the Trojan captive, Cassandra, of whom Clytaemnestra is jealous. Despite the king's request to have the prisoner treated gently, the queen orders her roughly into the palace. Cassandra foresees her tragic fate, but is unable to persuade the men of Argos that she is being lured to death. In despair, she enters the gates of the palace, which later are thrown open, and the queen...
...jointly by the Corporation and Board of Overseers is at present investigating the whole subject of the regulation of athletics, with the probability that there will be a reorganization of the Athletic Committee possibly before the end of next year, the electors have been called together again, at the request of the President, to elect the three undergraduate members provided for under the present constitution of the Committee. This action has been taken, because it was decided that it would be inexpedient to take up the question of undergraduate representation separately from the whole question of the reorganization...
...second vote of the President and Fellows of last Monday: "That a committee of three members of the Corporation be appointed to consider a report upon the whole subject of the regulation of athletic sports, and that this vote be communicated to the Board of Overseers with the request that they also appoint a committee for the same purpose; the committee so appointed to be a joint committee and to report as promptly as may be convenient." This vote was also consented to by the Board of Overseers...