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Merton Little, the fraternity's janitor for ten years, discovered the broken pipe when he tramped in at 6:30 a. m. to stir the fire. Muttering angrily, he picked up the pieces, fitted them back in place. He had told the fraternity's Graduate Body, owners of the house, that the furnace was worn out and ought to be replaced. But no one listened to a janitor. Still grumbling, he climbed up to the sleeping rooms on the second and third floors. Finding the boys snug in their beds, he pushed down a few barely-opened windows...
...that afternoon Janitor Little returned to do a little cleaning. The house was still quiet. He supposed the boys had gone out to lunch. But when he returned at 4:30 to make beds, he found the students still lying as he had left them in the morning. He looked close, saw that one of them was not breathing, that his face was strangely pink. He shouted, shook the boy's shoulder. There was no answer. Heart thumping, he leaped from room to room. Each boy lay pink and still...
...Harry finally seemed to realize that I had been fed up upstairs, and he said that the other publications did not compare, so he hustled me off before I could, finish my doughnut. Across the street he took me upstairs in a building and knocked on a door. A janitor told Uncle Harry that they were all sleeping. "Do you see?" said Uncle Harry. "That's the Advocate." Then he took me up the street and told me we were going into the CRIMSON, an old rival. "We've got to scoop them," was all I could hear...
...teaching school for $150 a year, working as a grocer's clerk, joining a fire company to get a free bed. At 53 he was making nearly $100,000 a year and had been groomed for the Presidency. At 27 he was manager, cashier, janitor and night watchman of a bank at Malone, Tex. (pop. 150) where he slept on a cot in the corridor. At 47 he was president of Chicago's second biggest bank, the First National (present assets $643,000,000), and lived in a 14-room house on Barry Ave. All Mel Traylor carried...
...themselves with Chaucer the poet (I agree!), while graduates should be principally occupied with historical and linguistic matters (here I object!). Let me assure you that for a graduate Chaucer is, or should be, also primarily a poet, as he is, or should be, for the professors, congressmen, the janitor of the building, etc. If anything, he should be more poet to the graduates, the teachers-to-be, lest they later succumb to the temptation to treat him as a unit in an historical series or even merely as something to be decently garlanded with so-called facts. The objection...