Word: numbering
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...been suggested that it will be a great convenience to the students to have letter-boxes placed in each entry at their own expense, so that the postman can collect our letters as he goes on each of his rounds. Perhaps the number of boxes that would be necessary is an objection to this plan; but it would be a great advantage to have some place for mailing letters that would be more convenient than the Post-Office. Why should not an official letter-box be placed under the bulletin-board that has been raised for the weather-reports? Some...
...twenty-one years of age is always an unusually sad event, but the death of one so bright, so generous, so uniformly good-natured as Allen Post is particularly distressing. His funeral took place in New York on Thursday, 30th December, and was attended by a large number of relatives, friends, and classmates...
...notice is published in the Record, requesting "all those in college who weigh less than 110 lbs." to call upon Captain Cook, who proposes to select from the number a coxswain for the University crew...
...glad that this [Athletic] association is prospering throughout the East, and hope it may displace the mania for rowing and boat-racing extant there. We hope that the stubborn fact that a very large number of those who rowed in the renowned boat-clubs of England have been brought to untimely graves by heart-disease, resulting from too sudden and violent exertion, may yet have its just weight as to this portion of American physical education...
...sound common-sense none of our exchanges surpass the Tufts Collegian. An editorial; in the last number, which urges the necessity of more attention to political education in our colleges, is particularly good...