Word: scouted
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...last issue that a move is to be made to employ janitors in the College dormitories, and that the experiment will be tried in Holyoke and Matthews next year. It seems to me that this plan would benefit no one, while it would do a great injury to the scouts now employed, who are very honest hard-working men. These scouts are in our employ, subject to our orders alone, and we, if dissatisfied, can always discharge them. Should janitors be appointed, we should still pay, but the College would employ, and in their attempts to serve two masters...
...College destroys all competition by letting him alone know beforehand the text-books to be used. Now, it is proposed to establish a monopoly in the College buildings, the result of which will be that those who have rooms in Matthews or Holyoke will have inferior service, because the scout - we mean janitor - will have no fear of being discharged if he does not quite suit his employers. Apart from the manifest disadvantages of this particular measure, the College should never authorize a monopoly, by putting a man into some office, and commanding the students to patronize...
...would suppose that a tolerably well-brought-up mule would know that a day in January with the wind blowing at the rate of fifty miles an hour, and the thermometer feeling after the floor, was colder than the spring days of April; but not so my scout. All through the winter he used to put barely coal enough on the fire to keep it from going out, and would leave the door open and me shivering as long as he could. But now mark the change. I wake up in the morning and find my grate heaped to overflowing...
Dress-suits are ruined as a general thing, either by the mud or the dust, and after having been, as in many cases, purchased for "that occasion only," prove useful only for the Poco or the faithful scout. Let us have caps and gowns by all means...
...many of the "sweeps" - apparently Yale for scout - have been caught thieving, the Courant fears that property will be very insecure...