Word: janitor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Typical of the events narrated in the tale is the Dunster House riot of 1936, in which the janitor was nearly beaten to death. As it was, he lost the sight of both eyes. Apted nearly lost his job as a result of the affair, but retained it through wholehearted student support. Another incident is the threat against President Lowell's life during the Sacco-Vanzetti trial...
...Janitor Joe Brady declared that it "smelled like an inside job," but nobody was able to explain how the culprits managed to do the deed, for the library doors were locked, and the windows open out two stories above street level...
...Radcliffe, football games, weekends, dances, bull sessions, sports; of work there will be a greater measure--reports, labs, recitations, exams, reading, conferences, quizzes; extra-curricular activities are legion--from mountain climbing to writing a daily newspaper; there will be no end of new people to meet--President Conant, your janitor, the guy who lives next door, and maybe even your roommate. You'll soon see that there is to be unending variety in your four years here, and maybe you will wonder what it will all add up to when it is over. Those very Seniors walking by so confidently...
...injections on 60 patients, with "highly encouraging results." What the healing substance is, and where it is produced, the doctors haven't the faintest idea. But they do know that in small amounts it prevents ulcer growth without inhibiting gastric secretion. Prize patient is the experimenters' laboratory janitor, who was an ulcer man for almost a decade. Now, after a year of fortnightly injections, he has no pain, smokes cigars, eats red meat, drinks beer...
...autopsy house. There Dr. Osier went every afternoon, a top hat on the back of his head, a pack of adoring students at his heels. In a bare room furnished only with a storage vault and a ston'e table, he cut up corpses the old janitor had saved...