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Mr George von L. Meyer '79, postmaster general of the United States, will deliver a lecture in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock on "The Post Office and Proposed Changes Therein." He will consider the questions of postal savings banks and parcel post on rural routes.
After Mr. Meyer was graduated from Harvard in 1879, he entered the mercantile business in Boston. In 1889, he became a member of the Boston Common Council and later served on the Board of Aldermen. From 1892 to 1896 he was in the Massachusetts legislature; during the last two years he presided as Speaker of the House. Four years later Mr. Meyer was appointed American ambassador to Italy, a post which he filled until 1905. In that year, he became ambassador to Russia, and occupied the position till 1907, when he was recalled to become postmaster general in President Roosevelt's Cabinet.
The lecture will be open to members of the Union only.
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