Word: durant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quiet on the official front in regard to the Lowell House food protest yesterday. Aldrich Durant '02, business manager of the University, said: "If there is anything wrong with the food, it certainly will be remedied. Four other Houses are served from the same kitchen and have made no complaints." Roy L. Westcott, manager of the Dining Halls, preserved a discreet silence...
Last Saturday Mr. Aldrich Durant, the University Business Manager, fell victim to the faulty architecture. What Mr. Durant exclaimed as he lost his balance remains a mystery. Eye witnesses refuse to divulge any account of his remarks. Evidently the-occurrences must have made a profound impression, however. Yesterday morning in places of the old sudden drop just within the doorway, a shiny new platform sloping gently to the floor greeted the entrants. Thus the old landmarks pass. Thus the power of important men is utilized to rectify the faults in our slowly advancing civilization...
...coercion to enforce an orthodoxy rigidly if unofficially defined, has been marked recently. It is chiefly as a repudiation of this tendency that the "Student News," however ridiculous or subversive its viewpoint may appear, should be encouraged. One need not believe in the wickedness of Mr. Durant nor in the divine inspiration of "Das Kapital" to be an uncompromising defender of free speech...
...N.S.L.'s activity took the form of an attempt to persuade Aldrich Durant '02, business manager of the University, to cut off further purchases of crackers from the Uneeda Biscuit Company until the strikers' demands have been met. Charles L. Whipple '35, executive secretary of the League, led a delegation of four to Durant's office yesterday afternoon but was unable to obtain an interview. An appointment, however, has been secured for 2 o'clock today...
Meal prices in all of the University dining halls will remain the same price next year as they are now according to a tentative announcement yesterday by Aldrich Durant '02, Business Manager of the University. It is also expected that there will be a surplus sufficient to equal the $40,000 now given to the scholarship fund for student...