Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Passing in at Memorial today I noticed but one forlorn umbrella standing in the racks in the transcept, while inside the dining-hall I found a number of umbrellas ranged along the walls beneath the coats and hats of their owners. The reason of this condition of affairs is plain. The racks stand outside, unprotected and alone, and men will not risk exposing their property to the danger of theft or easy misappropriation by leaving their umbrellas here. Too many cases have already occurred of umbrellas disappearing and of their owners being unable to regain them. Thus...
...remedy that I would suggest for this state of affairs is, that the umbrella racks be removed to the auditor's room, where the paper boy or a waiter might be put in charge over them. The racks would not take up an unnecessary amount of room ranged along the wall, and could be easily disposed of, as now, when not in use. In this way men could have some hope of seeing their umbrellas again when they had put them in the racks, and the dining-hall would not be littered up by the dripping things...
Some of the notices posted at the Law School are original, to say the least. For instance, the following: "Will the person who through mistake purloined my umbrella please return it to its grief-stricken owner and shout the beer. All will then be forgiven and forgotten." Another notice, posted not long ago, read: "Will somebody please find my knife that I lost and return...
...most Harvard men should number some whose conception of the rights of ownership of their fellow students is so small. The summary treatment which gymnasium and laboratory thieves have met with in years past has, it is hoped, tended to make such diversions as theirs unpopular; but the umbrella fancier has returned to college with his cupidity undiminished - rather increased by the knowledge that no attempt is ever made to detect him. It is to the credit of the employes of the gymnasium and laboratories that when money, watches or other articles were purloined, they have exerted themselves to discover...
Lost - A silk umbrella, with plain bamboo stick. Letters I. K. are cut on the handle. Please return to 24 Holworthy...