Word: brought
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...writer of the communication this morning has brought out the startling situation that the Athletic Association is requiring of each applicant for seats at the Yale game two cents extra postage on the enclosed envelope in which the tickets are sent out the week of the game. Whereas, by all good rules of mathematics and accounting the ordinary two cent postage required for a letter plus the registration fee of eight cents equals ten cents, the Association is charging its patrons twelve cents and stating that unless each envelope contains the required amount of stamps, no tickets will be sent...
...post system in the United States. We must now pay more to send a package from New York to Boston than to ship it to Europe; whereas four pounds is the limit weight for this country, packages weighing eleven pounds can be sent to Europe. If this system were brought up-to-date, it would be of immense value to the farmer, who could order all his goods by mail and thus save time and expense...
There will be a meeting of the Senior class in Lower Massachusetts this evening at 7.20 o'clock. The question of Senior class buttons will be brought up for discussion and final action will be taken on the continuance of this custom tonight. A large meeting is very desirable...
...which our forefathers fed keeps up the continuity of the stock. The methods of Mr. Norton were superbly out of date in our specialistic time. He saw in the Fine Arts the embodiment of man's deepest and most durable ideals; and with almost a religious fervor he brought these to bear on every aspect of the petty and careless life around him. He has been a preacher of reverence to a headlong age. And if sometimes a despairing note has been heard in his voice, it has been perhaps a necessary corrective of overconfident America...
...contact with the literary leaders of the last generation; with most that is notable in the circles of literature, politics, and the Fine Arts abroad; with whatever forces have worked for beauty and dignity in every age. He has been an epitome of the world's best thought, brought to our own doors and opened for our daily use. Let others describe him more fully in his personal charm and in his relations with the larger world. I, though with reluctance, confine myself to the admiring gratitude given him by the College which he served. GEORGE HERBERT PALMER...