Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1920 — Janitor Rang Clare Gong. [ARTICLE]

Janitor Rang Clare Gong.

New York university has just come into possession of an original photograph of the first janitor of that institution, equipped with the gong and stick with which he called the students to classes, says the New York Evening Sim. When the unlverolty. was founded, January 8, 1880. and students met in the original building back of the dty hall, there was, of course, no electric bell ringing system. The responsibility of attendance at recitation was shunted onto the janitor. Promptly on the hour he would proceed through the corridors armed with a huge metal gong in one hand and the gong atidr in the ether. Pausing outside the classrooms, he would beet his tattoo until the professor ceased his lecture and the stedenta moved on to the next room on their program.