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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Whitney can surely do much to obtain this college support by personal application. He knows or ought to know, that the Harvard Athletic Committee is working for the same ends as he, and every whit as earnestly as he. Yet he has attacked individuals under the committee's jurisdiction, without giving them a chance to speak for themselves. The course he has thus taken runs the risk of error, and it tends very strongly to cause such distrust and illfeeling as to destroy the influence which he might exert as the ally of the conservative movement in the colleges toward...
...change the present post offices that business men in the lower part of the city can have their mail addressed to Cambridge instead of to Cambridgeport. The first plan proposed, that of changing the name of this district to Old Cambridge in order that the down town district might obtain the much coveted name of Cambridge met with prompt, and it seems to us, just indignation, from the residents of this part of the town, who feel that the name is too firmly bound to the locality by long use and association to be so lightly cast...
...join the club at any time and obtain shingles by simply paying their fees at Amee's book store, Harvard square...
Some practical results of this step will be, that on Sundays mail must be called for at a distance, or not at all, that those who are not at home when registered and special delivery letters are brought by messengers, must go to a greater distance to obtain them, and finally that the delivery of all mails will be to a certain extent retarded unless an extra appropriation is provided for carriers' car fare...
Freshmen and Special Students may obtain information concerning courses in the various departments of study, from instructors, who will be present from 10 to 1 o'clock in the rooms announced in the Circular of Information...