Word: statement
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first statement of the needs of the Cambridge post office, reference was made to the rapidly increasing business carried on there. It would have added weight to the appeal then and will now doubtless satisfy those who signed the petition more than ever of the negligence of the Government, if the growth of the business were definitely stated...
...recorded in the number of students enrolled seems to be a heavy weight on the public press and with the usual ingenuity of that body the state of affairs has been generally explained. To these commentators the Alumni Weekly replies in a comprehensive editorial which closes with the statement that "no body about the university is seriously worried over the condition of the institution." If it were known that the standard of the Scientific School had been raised enough to throw out a large number of men on the entrance examinations perhaps people at large would not express such surprise...
Blue-books containing the statement of the condition of affairs at the post offic and the petition to the Postmaster General may be found at Leavitt and Peirce's, Memorial Hall and the Foxcroft Club and in the south entry of University Hall...
...petition and the statement of the needs of the post office are reprinted on page 3 of this issue...
...Statement of the Case.The accompanying petition is submitted to the attention of officers and students of the University. Forming as they do, a large group of the patrons of the Cambridge Post Office, they cannot but be directly interested in the efficiency of the postal service here; and their influence with the authorities in the prosecution of needed improvements in this office should therefore be considerable...