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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...average, and the present one, already black from glove leather, has been in use a year. In the event of a memorial service, Ehler has to climb up in the tower and toll the bell at close quarters. Most of the time he is on duty as janitor of Matthews Hall. Asked if he had no compassion for the Freshmen who daily are so rudely jarred out of their sleep by the five minutes of continuous bell-ringing, Ehler said, "Yes, I think two minutes is long enough, but Dean Sperry, he says nothing doing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EHLER, CHAPEL CUSTODIAN, HAS RUNG BELL, 300,000 TIMES | 2/9/1939 | See Source »

Fire, attributed by janitor Sheehan to careless smoking, caused considerable damage to several first floor rooms of an exclusive Harvard undergraduate lodging house at 59 Plympton Street, Cambridge, on Saturday night, and injured one city fireman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCLUSIVE STUDENTS' ROOMING HOUSE SAVED BY FIRE DEPARTMENT | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...portrait of George Jackson, retired Leverett House janitor, was presented to the House last night by the artist, Keith Martin, one-time Rabbit and husband of Barbara Madden, leading lady of "Knicker-bocker Holiday." The occasion was a House dinner given in honor of Jackson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PORTRAIT OF JACKSON GIVEN AT LEVERETT HOUSE DINNER | 1/11/1939 | See Source »

...Miller, assistant professor and resident tutor in History and Literature presided in the absence of Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Master of the House. J. Spence Harvin, chairman of the House committee gave Jackson a humidor as a gift from the undergraduate members of Leverett House, and the poetry-writing janitor was also presented with a testimonial bearing the Rabbit escutcheon and the signatures of the 300 diners. Jackson had been janitor of the House since it was founded eight years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PORTRAIT OF JACKSON GIVEN AT LEVERETT HOUSE DINNER | 1/11/1939 | See Source »

George Jackson, poet laureate and janitor of Leverett House for as long as the latter has been in existence, will retire at the end of this term, it has been announced by Aldrich Durant '02, Business Manager of the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GEORGE JACKSON, RABBITS' LYRICAL JANITOR, RETIRES | 12/13/1938 | See Source »

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