Aldrich Durant Retires From University Office

After more than 14 years of service to the University, Business Manager Aldrich Durant '02 will leave his post this June. He will resign under the University rule which requires all officers to resign in the month of June following their sixty-sixth birthday.

Durant's duties as business manager will be taken over., the Administration has indicated, by Vice-President Reynolds '15. Since his appointment to the newly-created administrative office two years ago Reynolds has dealt with various kinds of financial matters.

When he widens his field of activity to include Durant's former responsibilities after June, Reynolds will not assume the title of business manager, which will be dropped from the University roster.

Name on Signs

Perhaps the retiring officer's greatest fame was reached over the years of his service by signs posted throughout the Yard prohibiting bicycle riding within the gates. Each one was signed "A. Durant, Business Manger."

In a recent incident Durant replied to the complaints of certain residents of the entries of Wigglesworth Hall nearest Lamont Library that construction noises were awakening them too early in the morning.

'Study Early, Men'

On December 18 he promised to ask workers to cut out unnecessary conversation and added, "I would like to suggest that early rising is not a great hardship, that the Freshman dining hall is open at 7:15 o'clock, that there is no waiting line at that time, and that good scholastic work cam be done before 9 o'clock in the morning."

Durant's offices, from which issued many edicts affecting undergraduates during his tenure, were in Lehman Hall. Roy V. Perry, bursar, who also has quarters in Lehman, is not affected by the move.

After his graduation, Durant served successively as an instructor in Mechanical Drawing and an assistant in the Engineering Department. He left the University after some years, not to return until he took over his present post on July 1, 1934.