Word: works
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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GENTLEMEN, - In your article in the Crimson of October 25, commenting on the duties of the goodies and janitors, you make the following inquiry: "Why should the Freshmen in Matthews and Holyoke be obliged to pay the janitor exorbitant prices for work that a scout would do for at least half as much money?" and follow up the question by the assertion, "We ask this question not without a knowledge of facts...
...janitor will have the right in case of the new tenants, who take possession of their rooms for the first time this year, to do the work for them such as is now done by the so-called 'College men,' consisting generally of blacking boots, making fires, carrying coal and water, doing errands, etc., if these tenants employ any one to do such work...
...recitation-room for its own luxurious apartment, redolent with the aroma of the cigarette, and has been reckoning on its degree as a perfectly "cold thing," has been brought suddenly to a sense of its duties and dangers, by the announcement that 50 per cent on the year's work will be required for admission to the Senior class, and that two hundred censure-marks, instead of three hundred, will incur special probation. This is sad news to the sybarite, but it seems only fair that those who enjoy the same privileges as Seniors should be called upon...
...should not be used, if the men are willing to train. They are used at all the English colleges and by all the English schools, and what school-boys at Eton or Harrow can do, surely men of our College can do, if they will do sufficient training and work together. A reason for the second eight's rolling their shell in the manner described may have been owing to the changes of men and positions in the boat, or lack of practice in that boat; if, after sufficient practice, the eight could not handle their craft, it only shows...
...world around it. Here you must do as the rest do; here 'come-outers' are not tolerated; here a man must hide his heart, and make friends who will be useful to him. Policy is the keynote of a successful college career. Above all, never be enthusiastic; never work for any interest but a popular one, and be careful that you do not work too hard for that. College interests are like the enchantress in the fairy-tale, who, when the forty days of her fondness were over, made her lovers pay a terrible penalty for the crime of having...