Word: meyers
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...victorious football team at the Somerset Hotel this evening at 7 o'clock. Preparations have been made for about 350 guests. Major Henry Lee Higginson '55 will preside and J. W. Farley '99 will act as toastmaster. The speakers will be Dean Briggs, Postmaster-General George von L. Meyer '79, W. F. Garcelon L.'95, graduate treasurer of athletics, Head Coach P. D. Haughton '99, and Captain F. H. Burr...
...announced last night that Frank H. Hitchcock '91 had been offered and had accepted the position of postmaster general in President-elect Taft's cabinet. This is the first cabinet office to be filled. Mr. Hitchcock will succeed another Harvard graduate, George von L. Meyer...
...George von L. Meyer '79, Postmaster General of the United States, delivered a very interesting and instructive lecture in the Living Room of the Union last evening. He advocated the extension of a general parcel post as necessary for our farmers, and a system of postal savings banks that would keep our money from being sent out of the country by ignorant immigrants...
...Meyer first described the growth of the post office department from the time of Benjamin Franklin, when it contained 45 offices, to its present vast expense with 63,000 offices in ever part of the country. The expenses in 1907 were $178,000,000.00 and they are increasing each year. The rural postal system was first established in 1896 and has increased immensely in the last ten years. Due to this, the vast bulk of the people have become better informed on daily topics...
...Meyer then turned to his special subject, by stating that we should have a parcel 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...