Word: stamps
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...entrance to the post office will be at number 18, and the store now occupied by Edwards will be used exclusively by the carriers. This will remove to a greater distance from the stamp windows the noise of the machines which is annoying to the public in the present cramped quarters...
...issues at all" ! This is so marked by that affected disdain of seriousness of purpose with which the young amateur who dabbles in the decadent literature of our day flatters himself that he is intellectually superior, that I can hardly bring myself to seriously consider it. Does the writer stamp as "foolish" the meetings which the men have carried through to give voice to their convictions (as men striving for culture and learning) at this critical moment in the country's history, because they were carried through with the natural enthusiasm of youth, or because it is foolish for such...
Will you permit me through your columns to call attention to a Harvard custom which seems to me more honored in the breach than in the observance. I allude to the stamping by the students in Memorial Hall upon the slightest provocation. This evening a lady and gentleman entered the gallery, and the latter, happening to have his hat on, was greeted by a loud burst of stamping almost before he had reached the top of the staircase. He at once left the gallery. A similar incident took place a day or two ago in the case of two elderly...
...college public opinion.- (3) It would give men an opportunity to meet who otherwise would not do so.- (x) Men who live at a distance from the yard could meet there.- (y) Many men who at present feel that they would be benefited by acquaintance with men of different stamp and who now have no common ground upon which to meet would find one there.- (4) It would give a centre to college life.- (x) It would supply a meeting place for graduates.- (y) It would supply a point towards which students would gravitate for information and in leisure moments...
...than any other college. The Princeton system is far from being an ideal one and its adoption here would be generally deplored, but as it is a decided improvement over the present Yale methods, its use would certainly bear good results. Something definite should certainly be done here to stamp out that form of dishonesty so often seen, and an improvement in general opinion would accomplish this far better than prescribed rules. A series of extempore debates between junior eating clubs has been brought to a successful finish and others similar will probably follow...