Word: sign
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...notice is also posted, requesting all men to sign who prefer the present hours...
...very disagreeable to the members of the Union at large. To keep a close watch on every man in the Library and to enforce the leaving of coats, bags, etc., outside would probably be an effective means. To close the shelves to free access and to make every reader sign for his book, would be still more effectual. Or, of course, if the worst came to the worst, the Library could be closed. Altogether such measures would go far to destroy the present charm of the Library and the general spirit of freedom prevailing at the Union. These, however...
...selling of tickets to speculators and the accumulation by one person of a number of signed undergraduate applications, are evils which cannot be wholly suppressed, but might be lessened by a rule requiring all applicants of the first class to apply in person at the manager's office and there sign his application together with an agreement not to sell his tickets for more than cost price, nor in any case to men known to be speculators...
Leandre is in love with Isabelle, the daughter of Chicaneau, a gentleman who is also found of law-suits. To win Isabelle, Leandre plays a trick on Chicaneau through which the latter is made to sign a marriage contract believing it to be a deposition of apology. Finally Dandin takes a liking to Isabelle, and declares that she shall marry his son in spite of Chicaneau's objections. The marriage takes place, and Chicaneau threatens to bring another law-suit against Dandin...
...more than four men for the three marshalships, not more than five men for every committee of three, and not more than two men for each of the single offices. Any man deserving an office who has been overlooked by the committee may be nominated by a petition signed by fifty men; but no man may sign two petitions for the same office...