Word: posted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Woods was appointed by Mayor Mitchell April 8 to succeed Mr. Waldo, and he has planned a new police system which he believes will give New York far better protection than it has ever had. He will change the unit from the borough to the section, and institute "block posts" instead of the "fixed post system" of his predecessor. Instead of having a man on any fixed corner he will be given a block to patrol carefully. These "block posts" will be separated, and in between them other men will be put on guard at signal boxes...
...principal advantage of the post-post-Easterian vacation is the clemency of the weather then prevailing. By all the laws of Choice and Chance the weather next week will be extremely kind. Snow on the sixteenth of April demands a week of balmy spring to balance. There is even a possibility of its being so warm that the pathetic sprigs which comprise The Yard Beautiful will live. So there is little cause to complain. What if we are cheated out of a lawful holiday on April nineteenth...
...highly successful, there being nearly $1,000 now in the treasury. Chairmen of the sub-committees which will continue the canvass were elected as follows; G. E. Abbott, G. E. Leighton, A. Shortt, C. A. Ward. As yet no money has been collected from Freshmen living outside of Cambridge. Post cards asking for Fuado will be sent to these men in course of a few days...
...only place in the Government service today where college opinion and college men are regarded as a joke is in the Department of State. Mr. Bryan has driven J. B. Moore, a world authority on international law, from the post of counselor back to his chair at Columbia University. He has dismissed from the diplomatic service, after thirty years brilliant work, W. W. Rockhill, a college graduate whom the Chinese government is now seeking to employ as its chief adviser. In the place of a college man as First Assistant Secretary of State, Mr. Bryan has substituted a Wyoming apothecary...
...longer will late wayfarers be compelled to wend their course in pitchy darkness, and never more will Lampy be able to use the "pseudo-lamp-post" as humor for its picturesque cover. These same pillars of illumination have burst gloriously from the embryo, the Gay White Way now dominates our nocturnal existence, and the twenty-four hour day is successfully innovated...