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...Financial Vice-President, and the creation of this new office was the opening chapter of President Conant's reorganization of the financial administration of Harvard. The second chapter was written into the books with the announcement on June 27, 1934, five days after Commencement, of the appointment of Aldrich Durant '02 to the new office of Business Manager...
...Durant's Duties...
...Business Manager, Durant, is given the duty of administrating the following activities which formerly came under the supervision of the Assistant Comptroller: Caretaking (Janitors and Goodies). Dining Halls, Engineering Department (Heat, Light and Power), Harvard Bindery, Maintenance of Buildings and Grounds, New Construction and Alterations, Purchasing, Real Estate in Cambridge and Brighton, Service Bureau, Telephone Service, Watchmen and Police...
...Durant, the newly appointed Business Manager, has had experience as an engineer in this country and abroad. He has spent three years in Cuba and one in South America, in contracting work on harbors, bridges, railroads, etc. Between 1925 and 1930 he worked with the International Telephone and Telegraph Company during which time he was in charge of the erection of thirty telephone buildings in Spain. He then became a Vice-President of the Postal Telegraph Company, for the South Western division. In 1934 he has been chief engineer of the C.W.A. in New York, in charge of all projects...
...opportunist" TIME meant that sharp Publisher Schuster is alert to every opportunity to score a publishing coup, did not mean he was lacking in principle. But TIME cannot subscribe to Author Durant's concluding maxim: "Of the living, nothing but what is good...