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...regulations issued yesterday by Mr. Durant concerning solicitation on University property promise to bring a semblance of order into a realm which during past years has been, to say the least, chaotic. The new code of rules, assembled after a wide survey of similar problems in other universities, deserves applause for its unquestionable fairness...
However, with irritating vagueness, Mr. Durant has left the status of businesses run by students as obscure as over. The report states that specially qualified business houses may be given permission to employ students through the Students Employment Office after a careful examination of their repute and financial solidity has been made. Does this mean, therefore, that enterprises managed by students must also prove their financial responsibility? If so, one or two student business organization may be able to satisfy the University, but the majority will not be so fortunate. It is wise of the University to take steps...
...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...