Word: mail
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...afternoon and a short prayer meeting every night, and spend every morning taking letters by dictation and such things in the hospital a mile away. Together we run "movies" on Friday and Saturday evenings, and on Thursday, which is both the soldiers' holiday and the closing of the English mail, we do nothing but dole out writing paper...
...origin in the school of pessimism--the Schopenhauerian pessimism which fears contact with the realities of life. It springs from that same suicidal philosophy which leads men to avoid marriage and women to shirk motherhood. The artist who sacrificed himself belongs to a nobler--and commoner--humanity. --London Daily Mail...
...free, irresponsible spirit of college men shows itself most conspicuously in an utter disregard for the appearance of college grounds and buildings. It is not unusual to see a man walk through the Yard on his way to a nine o'clock, tearing up his morning's mail and scattering the bits of paper over the grass. Or a student will bring a newspaper to some recitation and leave it crumpled up on the floor. These are trifling instances of carelessness, perhaps, but the results are untidy recitation rooms and slovenly looking grounds...
...Office reports that there has been received a great deal of mail for students which has been addressed to the University. Students who desire their mail should call at the Office of the Recorder. University 4, as soon as possible...
...Office reports that there has been received a great deal of mail for students which has been addressed to the University. Students who desire their mail should call at the office of the Recorder, University 4, as soon as possible...