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...Hall, and the installing of sanitary facilities for the veterans' housing units-all fall within the daily scope of his activities. In all of these Durant is the perfect Yankee, shrewd and tight-lipped, but eminently fair. From his office in Lehman Hall the building and maintenance services that employ 1500 men and women are controlled with a canny eye towards thrift and an instinctive conservatism that marks an administrative officer of Harvard University...
...than five miles from here there are 1,500 Negroes living in homes most of which are unfit for human habitation. . . . They live that way because they are forced to. We refuse to give them jobs in Marysville. Our city has eight major industries all of which refuse to employ Negroes. If we are really serious about this business of building a world of peace and establishing the Kingdom of God on earth, we had better begin right here in Marysville by making it possible for these people to secure jobs...
...just literary exercises in devious plot & counterplot; a few are plotless casuals of Jews at home, at work & play; but most of them employ a simple plot to make a simple point-the joy, or sadness, or mystery of living...
Last week, the young man was also going west. He was negotiating for a surplus aircraft plant at San Diego, where he plans to employ 3,000 people to make California sport clothes...
Sancho's Dinner. "Saw a book in Adams's, Half Hours With the Best Authors. . . . I would rather make my own selection. Such compilations may be serviceable to those that have access to few books, but to employ them in other cases is too much like Sancho's dinner of state: one gets what another's taste has provided, and but precious little of that. . . . Played a game of whist in Jenks's room this afternoon. . . . Did wrong: won't do it again in term-time. Not that I think card playing sinful...