Word: posted
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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...
...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 my word, it broods over all these secrets that are trustfully committed...
...victory of Yale over Harvard at base ball, last Saturday, a Yale graduate telegraphed to the President of Harvard: "President Eliot, Dear Sir, - You will have to call into requisition again the services of the two veterans if you expect to win the series this year." - N. Y. Evening Post...
...Irishmen were passing a sign-post, one of them, looking up at it exclaimed to his comrade; "Whist, Mike; thread saftly owver the grave o' the dead. He was farteen years ould, and his name was Miles To Boston." - Spectator...
...newspaper making among college studies. "A class in Journalism" is what they call it. The Cincinnati College of Music is an easy subject compared with this one. The only school in which anybody can learn how to make a good newspaper is a newspaper office. - N. Y. Evening Post...