Word: janitors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some day amaze the world. Thus every U. S. home has its potential Mozart. But a year ago, to a startled public, was revealed the most extraordinary prodigy of them all-Nathalia Crane, 11-year-old poet, "The Baby Browning of Brooklyn," whose first volume of verse, The Janitor's Boy, was heralded by critics to be a work of genius...
...prodigy was Edwin Markham, Honorary President of the Poetry Society of America. Poet Markham is old; a snow white beard depends from his chin; perhaps because his long experience has rendered him dubious of prodigies, he examined the little Crane girl's poems with critical attention. Of The Janitor's Boy he said nothing. But last week, when he read her second volume, Lava Lane, he hinted a courteous skepticism. Last week he said to a newspaper reporter...
...their rooms taken to Phillips Brooks House. Lawrence Coolidge '27, Librarian of the Association, has requested all collectors who expect to be absent from Cambridge before Friday to leave the doors of their rooms unlocked, or to leave the books which have been contributed to them to the janitor in charge of their building...
Beside seeking relief from the heat in iced drinks and cool clothes many students spent their spare moments between examinations and study swimming. The University pools were continually filled and in Westmorly it was said that the janitor had to spend most of his time keeping unauthorized persons from utilizing the facilities reserved only for students in the dormitory. The Charles was popular despite a slight typhoid scare and the two boat-houses provided, swimming, diving and dressing places for numbers of hot, tired students...
...think we can afford to permit ourselves a few feathers. Why shouldn't the Superintendent of Caretakers wear that title? I've no doubt that his predecessor, the Head Janitor he was called, spent a good deal of time trying to improve his authority weakened as it was by such a name. After all, the 'goody' is, nominally, a caretaker...