Word: posting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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OWING to some misunderstanding at the Post-Office, the late mail was not delivered in the Yard during the early part of the week, although Mr. Danforth has had the entries lighted early in the evening ever since Thanksgiving; but on Wednesday the Superintendent at the Post-Office, having the fullest assurance that "the carrier's way was made bright," sent the evening mail to the Yard, much to the satisfaction of all concerned. We wish to thank both the Bursar and the Superintendent for their courtesy in listening to our wishes, and their consideration in carrying them...
...postman requests that the Secretaries of the different societies leave their addresses at the Post-Office...
...Post-Office Department are willing and anxious to accommodate the students, who have always been very gentlemanly in all their transactions with this office, by giving them equal mail facilities with townspeople, and if the carrier's way can be made bright, it will afford me great pleasure to institute a fourth delivery of mail in the College Yard at once...
SINCE the above was in print, we have received from the Superintendent of the Post Office a letter which we print in our Correspondence and to which we would call special attention. Its friendly spirit makes any comment of our own unnecessary...
THERE is a general wish among the students who room in College, that the late afternoon mail should be delivered to them. We have asked at the post-office why the students are less privileged in the matter than the people of Cambridge, and have found out that it is because the entries are not lighted. The Bursar tells us that the amount of matter that usually comes by the half past five mail seemed to make it scarcely worth while for the college to employ men to light the entries, but that it would be done if the desire...