Word: janitors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...Some janitors are exceptions. They spend the long days of their undifficult existence revolving and maturing hot thoughts of fame. One of them a fortnight ago (TIME, Oct. 10) crawled to the front pages of U. S. newssheets by calling himself "organizer and president of the World League of Cities," by inviting all kinds of potentates to a convention in Boston where he lives. Another, who inhabited a Brooklyn cellar while he wrote poetry and played a stringed instrument, is on trial for butchering an old lady. Last week a third janitor came to a measure of fame...
...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...