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Meatless menus may become a reality in the dining halls in one or two days, according to Business Manager Aldrich Durant '02, who said last Tuesday that dining halls would be without meat "within a week unless a drastic reversal of the current situation takes places immediately...
This conservatism conceals a personal history flavored with the dash of foreign engineering ventures. Trained as an engineer ('02), Durant received his degree and spent the next year in private enterprise. Between 1911 and '30, Durant was intermittently occupied with the construction of harbor works in Cuba, bridges in Paraguay and the mammoth International Telegram and Telephone exchange in Madrid. In 1934 he left a post as supervisor of public works for the State of New York to accept a surprise offer as Business Manager of Harvard, a post created...
Though his present duties lack the glamour of his early ventures, Durant has found the last 12 years something less than serene. Fairly or not, he has received a bad press, now over the curtailment of interhouse privileges, and again in connection with perpetually rising food and rent rates. Durant has been faced with defending this to a student bodyfully mindful of the University's tremendous endowment. As yet the students are not convinced. And then there is the independent union of Harvard employees, moderate and cooperative, but full of potentialities...
...face of these hazards, Durant manages to maintain a quiet reserve that is the mark of the successful down-east trader. Across the desk he is deliberate and exceedingly mild in mien and expression. This softness of speech must not be taken for timidity, as a generation of Crimson candidates will testify. But Durant is no legendary tyro out of the Copey mold. Rather he is a businessman-engineer working at the earth-bound business of maintaining Harvard's wealth of real facilities...
Droves of veteran students will put a new strain on these facilities during the next four years. Durant is frankly anxious about this period of overerowdedness, and even the Corporation seems aware of the problem. And while the Corporation consults no one, Durant will consult with Durant until a sound, hard-headed, and thoroughly safe solution is reached...