Word: janitor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roach, Lowell House night janitor, approaches the matter from a philosophical sandpoint. "I'm always pretty much content whatever I do. I like night work, and it's the same old routine. Nothing much ever seems to happen...
...Mexico bar. Kleven resigned from the faculty, but Wernette got no thanks. Instead, the Board of Regents met secretly last June and decided that he must go. When Wernette heard about it, he told them: "You can't fire a college president as you might a janitor." They decided to hold off a while...
First verdict of the Cambridge Fire Department and most Eliot-Kirkland residents was "spontaneous combustion in the Houses' garbage dump," but one Eliot janitor declared he had "never seen the cans before...
...Harvard janitor told him that the students were no redder than 20 years ago, and that "of course, we've always had a few nuts on the faculty." But Griffin viewed with alarm the Nieman Foundation, the Crimson (which he thought aptly named), and Author Vera Micheles Dean, for "suppressing the uglier aspects" of Communism in her course on the U.S.S.R. (The Crimson tartly pointed out that Mrs. Dean was not even teaching at Harvard; she is due to begin next month...
Varsity opinion on the matter appeared to be divided, however, as sources close to the team pointed out that it "just isn't done. The janitor is never promoted above the secretary." In the current Crimson coaching heresy, Boston is outranked by Bob Margarita, Hal Kopp, and Harry Jacunski, Harlow's line and backfield assistants last fall...