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...second bequest came in 1882 when John Owen, a graduate of Bowdoin and of the Harvard Divinity School deeded to the College a small parcel of land, owned by him since 1856 on the Charles River adjoining the Longfellow land...
...That in passing on the transaction, Ewing Laporte, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, had torn out a sheet from the lease on which the sum of $77,000 was mentioned for one parcel of land and substituted a sheet on which the sum was $90,000. (This was emphatically denied by Laporte...
...impose upon the long suffering subjects of this domain; and the second improved the farce of the thing by taking No. 1 seriously, and by explaining to him in the sweetest tones that it was not we who sang "Johnny Harvard" at the Harvard-Oxford debate, but a parcel of knaves who must not be counted among the members of our righteous Student Body. Whether we sang it or whether we did not sing it, the spirit of "Johnny Harvard" is in our hearts, and none but the veriest hypocrite will try to h'ss down...
First class mail for Europe from the Atlantic coast was suspended during the last three days of June and no parcel post was shipped over the same routes for the last week of the month. The reason for the cessation of mail service was that the Post Office Department does business according to rules that do not appertain in private business; all its income goes into the public treasury; all its expenditures come from specific appropriations by Congress...
Post Office officials estimated that about 50,000 parcel post packages, 500,000 pieces of first class mail were detained by the shortage of funds. The Aquitania scheduled to sail on July 1, and the Leviathan on July 4 were expected to take care of the accumulation...