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Monetary business, and any similar disagreeable business which you may have with the College, must be transacted at the Bursar's Office, which is in the old wooden building near the Square. Missing articles may sometimes be found there...
...correspondence column this week will be found a letter complaining once more of the new rule of the Bursar, which requires students rooming in the College buildings to employ janitors instead of scouts. This subject is one that cannot be too often touched upon; for so petty a piece of tyranny, the amount of annoyance it may cause is very great. We admit that it is desirable that the College buildings should have janitors; but why students should be called upon to fill out their inefficient salaries is not so clear. As our correspondent points out, there is no redress...
...correspondent is mistaken in supposing that the Faculty have anything to do with the janitors; the Corporation and the Bursar are alone responsible in this case. - Editors of Crimson...
...WISH to give two reasons why the attempt to force us to employ the janitors as scouts seems to me wholly unjustifiable. One would think that the reasons would be apparent to any honest and fair-minded man. In the first place, this move of the Bursar's is nothing more than an attempt, which might almost be called underhanded, to get from the students more money to pay the current college expenses than is given by the regular stated college fees. It is apparent enough that the janitors, regular college employees, are underpaid with the understanding that they shall...
...second reason is one which would be expected to be convincing enough to any gentleman in the Faculty, and, indeed, to any man of a balanced and logical mind. If the Bursar has a right to say who shall black our boots, he has a right to say who shall put down our carpets, who mend our furniture, who cut our trousers, and who shave us. In spite of our logical, philosophical, and metaphysical training, I have not yet seen a man good enough at drawing distinctions to distinguish two different principles in these several cases. Thus, while every...