Word: janitors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Proceedings in the French speaking contest for the medal offered annually by the Comite France-Amerique of Paris, were called to a sudden halt last night in Sever Hall when an over-energetic janitor followed out his duties to the letter of the law, and turned out the lights and locked up a 9 o'clock sharp, without looking to see if the building was empty...
...judges, the contestants, and the audience were forced to grope their way in the dark from the top floor of the building only to find the door locked. After much prying and pushing the door still remained firm and as the janitor was not to be found the group had to use a window as an exit...
Objections registered by Freshmen to the aroma of the power and to the noise of the rifles late at night, objections registered by the janitor to the numerous electric light bulbs and window panes shattered by erring marksmen, and the urgent need of that part of the building for a linen storeroom, are among the reasons for the election of the rifle team, although the official notification received by Captain B. D. Leaney '26, embraces only the last named reason...
...home if they wish to read poetry on the day of rest, instead of exercising, modern children, resort no longer to Lewis Carroll and R. L. S. They turn for mental nourishment to the subtle lyrics of Miss Nathalia Crane, aged ten or eleven, who has just published "The Janitor's Boy, and Other Poems", to the sound of subdued cheers from the press of the country...
Massachusetts has become the attic of the University,--a place for tattered and unsightly odds and ends. Cluttered together in a maze of clapboard partitions and sagging stairways are the offices of the chief janitor, the headquarters of the college police, the carpenter shop of the 47 Workshop, and, in the left, the shabby offices of a few tutors in the department of Economics. Commendable institutions, unquestionably,--and yet they seem a trifle unworthy of the oldest and most beautiful building in the University...