Word: clerk
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Clerk of course.--J. Greenough...
...number of positions filled during the term of 1912-13 was 1643, while the positions for last summer numbered 540, making a total of 2,183. In all, 64 different kinds of positions are listed, there being over 100 in each of the following divisions: guide, clerk monitor, proctor, stenographer, ticket-taker, tutor and typewriter. The ticket-taker positions came first with 613, and those of guide next with 406. The highest average per man is $734.70, credited to the "tutor and companion" division, in which $12,490 was earned in all. The average of the newspaper correspondents is next...
Holders of the reduced rate hotel tickets issued by the illustrated must present their orders to the illustrated's representative stationed at the hotel within two hours of the landing of the boat in order to secure the reduction. They will not be honored by the hotel clerk if first presented to him. Men having orders should present them to K. P. Hill at the Imperial Room 756; to R. P. Kelley at the Herald Square, and to S. F. Withe at the B way Central Room...
...Friends" tells of a young clerk with an "almost Apollic hand," "a thin nose," a "wide nare," and "unplumbed eyes," who reluctantly wins the friendship of a fellow clerk--and proves to be a girl (as the clever reader has discovered some months in advance of the hero). The story lacks novelty, probability and power. "The Process" appears to be just such a tale as no young man should try to tell, a tale outside the author's experience and beyond the present reach of his imagination. The style is a little too deliberately jaunty...
...Clerk of Course.--J. Greenough...