Word: mailboxes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thomas Job from the novel by Anthony Trollope; produced by Guthrie McClintick). For many years Anthony Trollope, the prolific mid-19th Century novelist, worked as an inspector for the Irish Post Office and is credited with saving all subsequent generations of mankind many steps by inventing the street mailbox as a convenient place for posting letters. As a novelist he saved no words, for he wrote with great facility, reeling off his ambling tales with a quiet relish, at the rate of 2,500 words a morning. But although he held the mirror rather too close to the placid mediocrity...
...shall conceal his identity partly from compassion, but more, perhaps, because we do not know it), emerged from Massachusetts Hall muttering surprise that he should be given the key to his mailbox rather than the mailman...
...hopeful person who opens his mailbox after each delivery the tutoring schools, to the man who buys his own shirts the Cambridge laundries, and to the Freshman the Union food--each may begin to assume the form of an unadvertised tradition. But none has lasted as long as the CRIMSON-Lampoon game. May it be continued as long as the Lampoon is in existence and may the score always...
...Pierian has a sizeable library to draw from and welcomes suggestions as to works to be read. These can be left in the Music Building mailbox...
Apparently this Mr. X went around to every mailbox in the college at about 2 o'clock yesterday morning and dropped a little card, reputedly from the Department of Hygiene, announcing a lecture on "The Scientific Aspects of Birth Control." Dr. Arnold N. Childes, a mythical medico, was scheduled to give the lecture...