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...obliged to wear them, but the rest of the students follow their own inclinations in the matter. On Commencement Day, however, the wearing of gowns is obligatory. By no means do all the students own gowns, but the majority, when occasion demands, hire them from the janitor, who always keeps them on hand, the charge therefor being $1.50 apiece. It seems as though a plan like this might be successfully introduced here in Cambridge, and be a source of advantage to both owner and student, for the former would gain a large percentage on his outlay, and the latter would...
...given in the College papers. The Executive Committee have found it impossible to maintain order in the Boat-House, and to pay the necessary expenses, without taking this action. The necessary expenses a year are: Four hundred dollars for rent, about eighty dollars for water, and fifty dollars for janitor's work. Any member of the University can become a member of the H. U. B. C. by paying three dollars and signing the Constitution. The rent of lockers is two dollars a year; of rests, ten dollars...
...modern Casabianca, - our efficient and ever-punctual janitor...
...rests, the upper floor will be much altered. All the small rooms and partitions will be taken down, and the whole floor divided by a partition running from door to door. On one side of this partition will be a bath-room, with two baths and five lavatoirs, a janitor's room, and a large club-room; on the other, there will be twenty-six lockers arranged in five rows, at right angles to the sides. On both sides dormer-windows will be projected, and if more light is needed, skylights will be cut in the roof. If the whole...
...understand from the Bursar that it is proposed to establish in Holyoke next year a janitor with a family. Occupants of rooms in the building who now employ men to build fires, etc., will be obliged to engage the janitor for those purposes. The occupants, moreover, who have washing done in Cambridge must have it done by the family. Or, in the words of a Boston paper, "Holyoke will be managed in every way like a first-class hotel, except that no meals will be served." The object of the proposed change is to exclude from the building persons...