Word: earned
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Alumni Bulletin last year, statistics were printed which show that between one-third and one-half of Harvard's undergraduates were earning money either in term time, in the summer, or during the entire year. That such a large proportion of students is able to obtain work is due mainly to the assistance of the Employment Bureau. According to the report of the secretary for last year the number of positions provided was almost 2,000 and the total amount earned by the students during the whole year was over $100,000. The struggles and achievements of other men sink...
Figures, which are at once interesting and encouraging, have just been given to the public by Columbia University to show that large numbers of students are earning during the summer at least part of the money necessary to secure their education. The record for two hundred students shows that they earned $37,602 during the summer--an average of $20 per week. While no such figures have been compiled for Harvard students; it is quite safe to venture the opinion that a majority of the students here earn during the summer months something toward the defrayment of their expenses...
...proportion of college men come from well-to-do families and are provided with good jobs at once; but that fact is offset by the other fact that the first three years out of college are for many men years of study in a professional school in which they earn no income. The two facts may fairly be considered as balancing each other. With the figures from so many men taking part in the result, drawn from two universities, and from two departments in one of them, the average may be thought of as fairly representative of eastern conditions...
...editor of a great Hungarian newspaper who has translated Bernard Shaw's plays into the Maygar tongue. One-fifth of the students are newspaper men or men who have had experience in the newspaper profession. Most of these intend to continue their business along with their studies and thereby earn money enough to put themselves through...
...desire to earn advanced standing may report at the CRIMSON Office this morning at 10.45 o'clock...