Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Casual Employment Office, however, refers jobs to student entertainers without charging the fee demanded by the new agency, and, although it does not advertise, many of the student entertainers who use its services report more offers of work than they can handle. What these students fear, of course, is that they will no longer be able to use the free services of the Casual Employment Office. Dustin M. Burke '52, Director of Student Employment, claims that these fears are unjustified; but, unless the agency's advertising succeeds in increasing the demand for student entertainers, the jobs it provides would otherwise...
Several students are concerned, however, that the new agency will take jobs from the casual employment office that might otherwise have gone directly to students. Some feel that the HSA is expanding into an area where it is not wanted or needed...
...past years, student dance bands, jazz combos, singing groups, and magicians could leave their names with the casual employment office. Outside requests for such performing groups were then turned over to the students free of charge...
Kann said that he and other student performers "will have no objection to an HSA entertainment agency," provided the agency "does not cut into the free opportunities available from the University's casual employment office...
Another unusual aspect of the new crop of freshmen is their casual bearing and extreme friendliness. Ask some upperclassman about his first three weeks at Harvard and the chances are he will tell you they were tense, scary weeks when about the only persons he knew were his roommates and boys he had met before coming to Cambridge. Not so in the Yard today. The freshmen have gotten to know each other very quickly. When asked if they feel somewhat alone and isolated, most freshman will tell you "of course not -- I've met so many exciting and interesting people...