Word: meyers
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...George von L. Meyer '79, postmaster general of the United States, will deliver a lecture in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock on "The Post Office and Proposed Changes Therein." He will consider the questions of postal savings banks and parcel post on rural routes...
After Mr. Meyer was graduated from Harvard in 1879, he entered the mercantile business in Boston. In 1889, he became a member of the Boston Common Council and later served on the Board of Aldermen. From 1892 to 1896 he was in the Massachusetts legislature; during the last two years he presided as Speaker of the House. Four years later Mr. Meyer was appointed American ambassador to Italy, a post which he filled until 1905. In that year, he became ambassador to Russia, and occupied the position till 1907, when he was recalled to become postmaster general in President Roosevelt...
...George von L. Meyer '79, postmaster general of the United States, will speak in the Living Room of the Union next Monday evening, at 8 o'clock. His subject will be "The Post Office and Proposed Changes Therein"; he will discuss postal savings banks and parcel post on rural routes...
...Meyer was graduated from Harvard in 1879 and entered the mercantile business. He served on the Boston Common Council and on the Board of Aldermen and was a member of the Massachusetts legislature from 1894-96. In 1900, Mr. Meyer was appointed ambassador to Italy, where he remained until 1905, in which year he was transferred to St. Petersburg as ambassador to Russia. He was recalled in 1907 in order to become a member of President Roosevelt's cabinet, as postmaster general...
...Harvard contingent of the Republican intercollegiate torchlight parade will leave Cambridge this evening promptly at 7.30 o'clock. The first division, led by a division marshal and Carmichael's band, will form between University Hall and Meyer Gate, between Holworthy and Thayer Halls. This will be followed by the second division, also led by a division marshal and headed by the University band, which will form on Cambridge street with its head at Meyer Gate. The parade will begin to form at 7 o'clock, and at 7.25 will march in column of fours in front of University Hall, where...