The distribution of advertising hand bills, usually obnoxious, becomes particularly so when the Cambridge tradesmen have their circulars handed about to the students just as they enter Memorial Hall. The average student, having satisfied his curiosity as to what the poster in question contains, calmly drops it on the ground wherever be happens to be; and in consequence the scattering of such papers in direction leaves the neighborhood in a very untidy condition. Such nuisances as circular distributors are not allowed to come into the yard, we believe. Why should they not likewise be kept from the vicinity of Memorial, where the scattering of myriad bits of paper in and outside of the transept produces an effect so untidy? Let Cambridge tradesmen confine their efforts to obtain customers to some more agreeable method and they will doubtless find that the patronage of the students will not diminish from the want of hand bill fare.
Read more in Opinion
PROPERTY FOR HARVARD COLLEGE.
