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Several correspondents have urged us to make a final appeal to the faculty, or a systematic attack on the janitor, for more heat and less darkness in the chapel. It is, unfortunately, too early to insert our stereotyped editorial on heating the chapel, as there is a rule of the paper which forbids its use oftener than once a month. We, therefore, pass over tre old grievance at this time, and turn to the new complaint which has been made. The chapel, it is said, is too dark to allow the reading of the psalms without injury to the eyes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THROUGH THE YEARS | 12/19/1934 | See Source »

...sensible reason, a flapper bride (Heidi Vosseller) comes on wearing a turtleneck sweater, carrying an armful of lilies. Ushers in Prince Alberts appear with flowers in whiskey bottles. The mock marriage is immediately followed by the appearance of a large litter of Princeton children. The one scholar, a janitor with a Phi Beta Kappa key, attempts to sweep up the football hero only to be carried contemptuously offstage on the hero's rugged back. Anticlimax occurs when a Salvation Army lassie snatches off her spectacles, exhibits dancing tights and a rare pair of bright red garters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Horseplay at Hartford | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

...chief roles in the burlesque, which includes a fire in a modern apartment house are as follows: Mr. Tyler, Donald H. Gleason '35; Mrs. Tyler, Walter W. Birge '35; and Janitor, Lawrence vanB. Nichols '35. The chorus has not been selected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 12/12/1934 | See Source »

...wasn't really a cynic. The boys thought he was, but they were prejudiced. Gus was just the janitor, and all janitors are queer ducks to college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Cynic | 12/7/1934 | See Source »

Such was the notice which appeared last week in the entry of a remodeled apartment house at No. 23 Barrow st., Manhattan. Men strange to the janitor had indeed been climbing the stairs to visit the new tenants of Apartment 4 C. The visitors were the intelligentsia of Greenwich Village. But the most important visitor the janitor had not seen. His name was Edward Bellamy and he had been dead 36 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECOVERY: Utopians Eastward | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

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