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Investigation has revealed that the only reason for ringing the chapel bell each morning is that all responsible agent, tradition. Alexander, the janitor of Memorial Church, In answer to questions on the subject, replied, "It's just like my having to ring it with a rope instead of by electricity; they always have rung the Chapel bell that way so they probably always will, even in this new building...
...gazed his fill, Frank Bonora suddenly felt himself trapped. His head, which had slipped through the bars so easily, could not slip back. It stuck at the ears, painfully, inexorably. Maybe this was what School was like. Frank Bonora set up an anguished wailing which lasted until a janitor came with a hacksaw...
...compared to a loss of $878,800 for the same period a year ago. Price paid was $1,000,000 cash; other considerations, if any, were not published. ¶In Spring Valley, N. Y. Charles Williamson resigned as a director of Ramapo Trust Co., became the bank's janitor-guard...
...himself of his spouse, Dr. Stevens helps the ship's doctor treat a case of infantile paralysis. Her own child contracts the disease and dies before serum can be brought by airplane. She is just about to throw herself out of a window in despair when the janitor scampers in to say that his child has swallowed a safety pin. Pulling it out is what restores Mary Stevens' interest in existence...
Author Weller's compendious calendar starts in September, with a Lampoon editor coming back early to get out the Freshman number; it ends with a senior, reluctant to move out at the end of the college year, barricading himself in his room against the janitor and his minions. Between are 421 closely printed pages, a kaleidoscopic camera's eye that picks out almost every type of individual and circumstance to be found in a big modern university. The book's coherence suffers from its multiplicity of interests and characters which mingle but never really meet. What story...