Word: durant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ralph Blood, the senior (and narrator), is definitely not the clean-cut type-at least he would hate to think so. He reads Freud and Will Durant and Walter B. Pitkin; when his girl friend tells him she has dreamed of snakes, his eyebrows almost scalp him. His mannerisms, down to the last flickering cheek-muscle, were learned at the movies; he is as full of polysyllables as a colored preacher. His girl, at the start, is Harriet Stevens, who hopes to become a concert pianist and whose mother is in the Social Register. He and Harriet "explore each other...
...Aldrich Durant '02, business manager of the University stated that "our negotiations were carried on in a spirit of harmony and mutual concessions." Chief representative for the employees was Joseph Stephani, secretary-treasurer of Local 106 of the Cooks' and Pastry Cooks' Association, who also handled the interests of Waitresses' Union Local 112, both affiliated with the American Federation of Labor...
Culminating an investigation which has been conducted since last spring by a committee of House masters and Senior tutors and by Aldrich Durant, business manager, the new rate for House suites were announced last night by Professor Ronald M. Ferry, Winthrop House master and chairman of the masters' committee...
Reducing the number of rent levels, the masters and Durant have arranged the new schedule so that the rates increase in grades of $30 instead of $20. Thus the possible rents which a student may pay for his accommodations will...
...large number of long distance connections to New York and Washington. Though Canadian numbers are frequently requested, it's nearly a year since the last message for London. In addition to tolls on these calls, rent must be paid on the electrical equipment, so Mrs. Morell, Business Manager Durant's girl Friday, each month writes out a $3,500 check for the New England Telephone and Telegraph Co. But the war, spawning numerous University committees and requiring more rapid dispatch of some professorial confabulation, has already overtaxed the present facilities of the central switchboard. Soon a sixth operator will have...