Word: porter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When union president Daniel G. Mulvihill requested another wage increase for University maids, he did not expect to touch off a purge of gracious living. But the University immediately announced its favor toward the Tech plan of a porter service, of, by, and for the students. The traditional Harvard maid was dusting on towards extinction...
...personal bed-making prospect would only become a reality if the College followed the Tech plan completely, but details have yet to be considered. Yet a loss of gracious sleeping appears well out-weighed by arguments in favor of the student porter...
Phillip L. Isenberg '51, captain of the football team, said that the student porter system would allow those who seek part-time work outside the University to be closer to their studies...
...survey of the effectiveness of the student porter plan at M.I.T. appears on page...
...porter is able to live less expensively than any other student," another Tech man commented. "Their work earns them rent and sometimes one free meal...