William Waller Carson Reminiscence, Page 2

Title

William Waller Carson Reminiscence, Page 2

Description

Letter written by William Waller Carson, Professor of Mathematics at Davidson College from 1877 to 1883 and Superintendent of the Grounds.

Date

July 19,1918

Identifier

DC0166s

Text

The above reference to a negro reminds me that we also had our troubles. It may interest other to know here one of these was roofed. The College paid its janitors somewhat more than laborers received on the adjacent farms. But the College had trouble in getting men on one occasion, though the farms apparently had none. [illegible] my perplexity I went to one of the janitors and in a hear to heart talk asked him to tell me frankly what the trouble was. He responded with his fullest confidence. His informed me that the trouble lay in the mental strain to which a janitor was necessarily subjected and that a man who plowed or chopped “don’t have to study about nothing” but that this would be very far from the case with one who had “to dust, or sweep, or take up ashes.” But to return –

Language

English