Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...COME Muse, let's sing of mail-boxes." And why not of mail-boxes? Yet some may be inclined to advocate the claims of the lamp-posts as superior. They may assert that the box is but a mere dependent; for though we find many lamp-posts without mail-boxes, we rarely, if ever, come upon a mail-box not connected with a lamp-post. But, mind you, when I say mail-boxes I do not mean the dainty, fragile articles often so misnamed; but the big, honest, ugly iron boxes that are painted green, and shaped like knapsacks...
...there is something infinitely touching in the idea of an entirely receptive existence, and such is that of the letter-box. In Phaedrus's fable every one is reported as carrying two wallets, - one at his back, filled with his own faults, the other in front, loaded with the faults of others. The letter-box - or, if you please, the lamp-post - wears its wallet but in front. Faults of its own it has none; but when does it fail to bear the burden of others' mistakes? And do not tell me it is but a senseless object. No, take...
...petition, with blanks for date and excuse, may rapidly be printed off. The student writes upon a slip of paper his age, college class, the address of the superintendent of the Sunday school which he attends, and his mother's maiden name. He drops this into a little box; below is a sealed compartment in which are one thousand assorted excuses; turning the crank of the machine, the proper excuse drops...
...showed a sense of the fitness of things in the Freshman to ask for a "box-stall" at the Globe the other night...
...fire-alarm box No. 54 has been removed from the corner of Sumner and Cambridge Streets and placed on Memorial Hall...