Word: postman
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...true that the College postman has passed a vote of thanks to the author of that article in the last Advocate...
...step! - it's the postman...
...postman requests that the Secretaries of the different societies leave their addresses at the Post-Office...
...demonstrated last year that leaving letters under the doors or supported by the doorknobs was unsafe; the postman, therefore, left no more letters in this way without written instructions from the students. Since then, the majority of the rooms in the College buildings have been fitted with letter-slides at the owner's expense. It would be a small thing to the College and a great convenience to the students and the postman if the remaining rooms were provided with letter-slides at the expense of the Corporation...
WHENEVER the ranks of the United States postal service in Cambridge are invaded by sickness or resignation, the students are called on to undergo the inconvenience of waiting until noon for their mail. The reason our postman rather than any other is called on to do double duty is that the Mount Auburn people make a fuss if their mail is delayed. Now where, in the Mount Auburn district, seventy-five letters are distributed, between two and three hundred are delivered in college. The injustice is apparent, and all that remains is to make a fuss...