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...recent years Secretary Hassett has subbed frequently for Steve Early as press secretary, especially on the grueling train trips which Early dislikes. But his prime value to the President has been as all-round literary choreman, helping compose some of the most felicitous of Presidential letters, touching up the Presidential speeches and supplying apt quotations and historical facts. One of his prized possessions is an autographed photograph of the President inscribed: "To Bill Hassett −a rare combination of Roget, Bartlett and Buckle...
...most popular forms of employment during term-time were as tutor, clerk, proctor, monitor, census-taker, choreman and ticket taker. There were also many men who occupied their spare hours in employment as carpenters, salesmen, librarians, ushers, waiters, stenographers or watchmen. During the summer the leading employments for men who were earning their way through college were tutoring and serving as tutor companion, camp counsellor or clerk...
Fourteen hundred and sixty-one temporary positions were filled during 1914-15, embracing 76 different kinds of work. Three hundred and forty-eight men secured work as guides: while the monitor and typewriter divisions are both well over 200. The classes having over 50 enrolled are as follows: choreman, clerk, proctor, tutor, "tutor and companion," and waiter. The highest average per man for term-time employment was $983.93 accredited to the "tutor and companion" class in which $14,609 was earned altogether. The average of the newspaper correspondents division comes next with $712.75; the "instructors" third and hotel employees fourth...
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