Word: fors
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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GENTLEMEN, - In your article in the Crimson of October 25, commenting on the duties of the goodies and janitors, you make the following inquiry: "Why should the Freshmen in Matthews and Holyoke be obliged to pay the janitor exorbitant prices for work that a scout would do for at least...
Now, with all due respect for the author of the editorial from which I have quoted, and his "knowledge of facts," allow me to question the accuracy of his information, and in justice to the janitors previously mentioned, present the other side of the case to your notice. The Rules...
"The janitor will have the right in case of the new tenants, who take possession of their rooms for the first time this year, to do the work for them such as is now done by the so-called 'College men,' consisting generally of blacking boots, making fires, carrying coal...
"For 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 him."
It is, moreover, a practice of certain scouts, when asked how much they charge for doing the work of tenants, to reply "fifteen dollars a term," which naturally sounds somewhat lower than the janitor's price; but which, taken in connection with the fact that there are two terms in...