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...read about Janitor Bonney and I read what he said about drinking in colleges [TIME, Nov. 14, LETTERS] and it made me think. I too went to college (what college I had better not say), I too knew a janitor who "waddled" through the dormitories. But he could not have been much like Janitor Bonney. Michael Bonney must be the best college janitor in the United States...
When I went to college I had few friends, but I was straightforward and I had never tasted alcoholic drink. My janitor was nice to was me for a while; I remember his name. It was -- --.* Then one night he came into my room laughing and shouting. "Here, sport!" he cried, "Drink this! It'll make a man of you!" I drank it. It was whiskey and I rather imagine he had stolen it from some other student. It was the first time I the had ever tasted an strong evening liquor but it was not my last. Many...
...gather such enviable publicity for two great universities, and even an avid press might eventually weary of petty bickerings, founded on untruths. One might question the point or the intended moral of such noble statements as. "In New Haven one is often on the same terms with one's janitor as with one's rooms-mate." And one might try for hours to decipher the meaning of such a magnificent collection of words as "the substance of the spirit of revelry rampant." The results, however, of all these diversions could scarecly be worth the efforts required. No one over attempted...
...bevy of wastrels is not to be found, or a more hospitable. Many interesting points of contrast between them and us are immediately apparent. Impervious to the depressing influences of democracy, the Cambridge helots are obsequious. In New Haven one is often on the same terms with one's janitor as with one's room-mate. But the Harvard man never sees his janitor, save when he comes home in the morning and glimpses him at work on his shoes...
...faculty of the College of the City of New York, certain that Michael Bonney was the finest college janitor in the U. S., prepared a banquet for him. Anxious to make merry, they publicly gave him the "degree" of Past Master of Janitorial Science. They gave him a watch. President Frederick B. Robinson said: "We can't pretend to Michael Bonney. He knows us inside and out just as he knows the college inside...