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PRINCETON has fifty-eight post-graduate students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 4/18/1879 | See Source »

...models; just as we who may not know any first class Parisians, form our opinions of the French nation from what we see of "cabbies" and shop-girls. You see I am trying not to be prejudiced either against you Yankees or for us. I send by this post some Oxford newspapers that may interest you, and remain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OURSELVES AS OTHERS SEE US. | 2/7/1879 | See Source »

OWING to some misunderstanding at the Post-Office, the late mail was not delivered in the Yard during the early part of the week, although Mr. Danforth has had the entries lighted early in the evening ever since Thanksgiving; but on Wednesday the Superintendent at the Post-Office, having the fullest assurance that "the carrier's way was made bright," sent the evening mail to the Yard, much to the satisfaction of all concerned. We wish to thank both the Bursar and the Superintendent for their courtesy in listening to our wishes, and their consideration in carrying them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/6/1878 | See Source »

SINCE the above was in print, we have received from the Superintendent of the Post Office a letter which we print in our Correspondence and to which we would call special attention. Its friendly spirit makes any comment of our own unnecessary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/22/1878 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/22/1878 | See Source »