Word: earn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is a considerable disparity between the demand and supply of jobs, and the conclusion is obvious that many students would like to earn more money than they are at present. T.S.E. unfortunately is a very limited source of supply. First of all, commuters, out of house men and graduate students are excluded from it. Secondly, T.S.E. does not have enough jobs to equal the demand of even the undergraduates living in the Houses who are eligible...
...very necessary. Therefore, the Student Council Committee recommends very strongly that Harvard University apply for funds from the National Youth Administration in order to start a Student Work Program. It would then be possible to obtain jobs for 10% of the University's enrollment, enabling approximately 600 students to earn an average of $15 per month-or $135 for the college year. The Student Council Committee puts forward several important reasons in favor of N.Y.A...
...That N.Y.A. doesn't pay enough. But the amount that can be earned often means the difference between staying and being forced leave college. As the Student Council well knows from the desperate requests for sums of $30.00 or less on the eve of each term bill, the opportunity to earn $15 a month in useful and instructive work would be a god-send to many undergraduates. Furthermore, the N.Y.A. aid can be used to supplement T.S.E. and the present Student Employment program. Thus a student who is now employed but finds it very difficult to make both ends...
...jobs would be classed under two general headings, college work and graduate work. The former, since it is relatively unskilled, is rewarded with a lower minimum, maximum, and average wage than the latter, both per hour anl per month. A student in the College would earn something over $13 a month on the average at from $30 to $50 an hour...
...colleges and universities in the country have N.Y.A. student work programs. Included are Yale, Princeton, Radcliffe, M.I.T., Dartmouth Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Brown, etc. It is unfair that students attending Harvard should not receive similar opportunities to earn an education...