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DEAR SIR, - I am now having printed, and shall soon mail to the leading colleges, a formal circular announcing the fact that next year the National Association will inaugurate races open to collegians only, and inviting correspondence as to the style of races preferred, the time and place of the Regatta...
...Post-Office Department are willing and anxious to accommodate the students, who have always been very gentlemanly in all their transactions with this office, by giving them equal mail facilities with townspeople, and if the carrier's way can be made bright, it will afford me great pleasure to institute a fourth delivery of mail in the College Yard at once...
THERE is a general wish among the students who room in College, that the late afternoon mail should be delivered to them. We have asked at the post-office why the students are less privileged in the matter than the people of Cambridge, and have found out that it is because the entries are not lighted. The Bursar tells us that the amount of matter that usually comes by the half past five mail seemed to make it scarcely worth while for the college to employ men to light the entries, but that it would be done if the desire...
THERE is, as the last Advocate states, a carrier's delivery of mail at 5.30 P. M., but unfortunately the college mail is not included in this delivery...
...SAGACIOUS Junior who takes an elective in Chemistry, on presenting a package marked "Soap," at the post-office the other day, was informed that soap was not transmissible by mail. He consulted the United States Postage Laws, and discovered that "chemicals, hard, and non-explosive," are included in mail matter, so he marked his package, "sodic sterate, hard, non-explosive," and presented it to the post-office clerk. It is unnecessary to add that no questions were asked, and that the package reached its destination...