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Students are required to employ the janitor of their building, who is selected by the Faculty. No complaints of the janitor for carelessness, intemperance, or dishonesty will be entertained by the Borsair. On the contrary, the Borsair will be entertained by the complaints. Care has been taken to provide in each case a person who, under ordinary circumstances, will give no cause for such complaint. It is therefore recommended that students keep their boots clean, so that there will be no chance for dissatisfaction if they are not blacked; that nothing but milk and water be kept in rooms...
...about the rules of euphony, and who translated princeps by chief or emperor, instead of head. In addition to these troubles I have to resist all the time the students' inclination to use Biblical English, or, in default of that, such provincial phrases as no well-educated man can employ...
...reply to the inquiry "Why are not students' letters delivered at 5.30 P. M. the same as citizens'?" I would answer that it is impossible at that hour for the carrier to find his way through the dark halls, and Mr. Danforth says he is not willing to employ a janitor for the purpose of lighting the gas, which is now used by students only as they require, unless some greater demand is made than now exists...
...matter than the people of Cambridge, and have found out that it is because the entries are not lighted. The Bursar tells us that the amount of matter that usually comes by the half past five mail seemed to make it scarcely worth while for the college to employ men to light the entries, but that it would be done if the desire was general among the students. Holyoke and Matthews already have janitors whose duty it is to light the entries, and there is no reason why the late mail should not be delivered in those buildings at once...
...this service he may charge the tenants not exceeding twenty dollars each a year where two tenants in a room employ him, and not exceeding twenty-five dollars a year where only one tenant in a room employs...