Word: posting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...wished to enter just as the events were about to begin. One of them, and his reasons I could appreciate but not comply with, said it was not convenient for him to join the Association before. The other said he thought the entries closed at the post, and was quite sure there was nothing on the posters about closing on Thursday...
Dailies. - Boston Advertiser, Post, Journal, Globe, Herald, Transcript; New York Herald, World, Times, Tribune, Graphic; Cincinnati Commercial; Louisville Courier; Chicago Tribune; St. Louis Republican; Springfield Republican; Worcester Evening Gazette; San Francisco Evening Post; New York Semi-weekly Post...
STUDENTS entering college or returning from vacation are requested to leave their address - name of building or street and number of room - at the Post-Office, so that their letters can be delivered without delay...
ATHLETICS.Yale. - The Athletic Meeting of this college was held on May 29 at Hamilton Park, New Haven, before a small audience. There were few entries, and as several events did not fill, men were allowed to enter at the post. 100-yards, F. W. Brown, '78, S. S., 10 1/4 sec.; running high jump, O. D. Thompson, '79, and Jewett, '79, tied at 5 ft. 2 in.; half-mile, H. Livingston, '79, 2 min. 8 sec., not 2 minutes as reported in our last issue; tug of war, '81; throwing baseball, W. J. Hutchinson, '80, 343 ft. 8 in.; Senior...
...SAGACIOUS Junior who takes an elective in Chemistry, on presenting a package marked "Soap," at the post-office the other day, was informed that soap was not transmissible by mail. He consulted the United States Postage Laws, and discovered that "chemicals, hard, and non-explosive," are included in mail matter, so he marked his package, "sodic sterate, hard, non-explosive," and presented it to the post-office clerk. It is unnecessary to add that no questions were asked, and that the package reached its destination...