Word: janitoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tree branches cut from the fallen trees and, like Birnam Wood advancing on Macbeth, dragged them to the tower, where they stacked the limbs in front of the doorway. The doors had already been locked by the campus police. (In the meantime, someone had started a fire in the janitor's closer in the tower which brought seven fire trucks. They put it out with one fire extinguisher.) When the students started banging on his outside door, Hackerman decided to keep cool and let in a few. He set up a meeting between six students and Erwin. During the meeting...
...seemed in good spirits. "It's a pleasant job." he said. "Harvard treats me good. I've been working here 24 years. I had two heart attacks twelve years ago and they gave me an easy job. Before that I was a plasterer. Then I was a janitor in the North Yard. Threc-and-ahalf years ago I came here to this House. They give us free medical care up at Holyoke Center and I get along good with the boys...
...residents of Radcliffe's Avon House--13 Cliffies, the resident couple plus four-year-old son, the janitor, and the maid--applied as a group for admission to Yale. The Cliffies said they were tired of being "second-class citizens" at Harvard, but they also said they wouldn't move south unless. Yale accepted their whole group...
...that the Lampoon isn't beneficent. Since they came into the coin in '66, every issue has been free to undergraduates. And for years they've been supporting their over-seventy janitor, Elmer Green (who's done nothing but impersonate dignitaries on magazine covers), in their cellar. And as soon as the Lampoon can afford it, they plan to move him to a nicer apartment in Somerville . . . so they can "build a darkroom down there...
...good because the music is both original and good. If it were a little better and if they had a singer who wasn't so needlessly bad, they could have gotten a hit record out of this and made even more money for their castle, and moved their janitor to Newton, even...