Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since this footnote appeared the mail has been bringing us your suggestions for miscalling our feathered friends. In fact, it has become a kind of TIME readers' parlor game. In self defense, we have now told the story of the durable footnote in a booklet illustrated by Richard Erdoes, the Publisher's Letter artist. Here is its cast of characters...
...gave up his usual early morning walks ; after rising, he went directly to his desk to read mail* and sign bills. Most of the time, his midday jaunt to the naval station's crushed-coral beach was his only outdoor activity...
Early each morning, the Service's lone truck picks up all mail for Harvard, except student mail and letters with no more explicit address than "Harvard"; these are sent to Weld Hall for further interpretation. The mail is already sorted by buildings at the Post Office, and Greene's office integrates the mailbags into seven piles, for delivery to seven sub-stations located around the outskirts of the Harvard territory...
These sub-stations consists of large boxes, from which the mail is picked out by janitors for delivery to individual offices. This early delivery is the only one not directly handled by the Post Office; the Brattle Street branch was too overloaded by the volume of morning mail for the University to get it out at a reasonable hour...
...most of the day, Greene is concerned with keeping interdepartmental mail flowing among the sub-stations, and fending off intruders who have severe misconceptions about the function of his service. At the beginning of each school year, curious freshmen keep popping in to find out why their monthly checks go astray and why they keep getting letters addressed to people in Eliot House. All Greene can do is refer them to the Information Office in Weld Hall, and offer to sell them some stamps. He does about $50 worth of stamp business each week, mostly in the three-cent variety...