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Vanderbilt is managed like a club For meals checks are signed as at the Harvard Union, and various club facilities are provided. Ladies are freely allowed in the rooms from one to six o'clock, the only provision being the notification of the janitor so that he may not confuse them with agents and saleswomen, who are not allowed in the hall. The bringing of guests, men and women, to dinner is encouraged, and several dances are held during the year...
Wells Root (Yale 1922), onetime theatre critic for TIME, wrote this cinema of the adventure of the son of a janitor and a girl from a Wild West show in the shadow of Holder Tower. Frank Wright Tuttle (Yale 1915) directed it. Like loyal sons of Eli, the author and director asked permission to shoot the college scenes on their own campus but were turned down by New Haven authorities, annoyed by the many unauthorized pictures which have shown Yale men as debauchees...
Curly-haired Buddy Rogers is a janitor's son. He does not know this because when his mother died the county supervisors refused to trust his rearing to his drunken father and put him in an orphanage. Years have passed and the father, sober enough now to hold the job he has gotten in a Princeton dormitory, gets word that his son has been given the thousand dollars he has sent and will arrive to enter Princeton about the same time as the letter. He is advised not to reveal his identity...
...minutes later the Yard Cop was saying to the janitor of Greys, "Yea, I saw him. Yea, looks just like his pichures. He wouldn't speak, his wife was with...
...same time the expenditures for various running expenses of the College buildings, including dormitories, were given out. The caretaking item for the College dormitories, including maid and janitor service and incidentals, amounted to $106,500. Steam heat furnished each College room totaled $71,891. Water, furnished in any desired quantity with each room, drew $7,075 from the Harvard exchequer, and electricity for all lights in the College dormitories exclusive of those in private rooms, cost $8,606. Other expenditures of interest were: for operation of the Dunster Hall steam elevator, $885.; for laundry work for the College dormitories--linen...