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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the 1926-26 college year the men who obtained positions through the University Employment. Office earned over $75,000, according to a statement issued yesterday by W. W. Daly '14, Secretary of Student Employment. This is an increase of approximately 45 per cent over the $53,690.88 earned by students during the previous year. Mr. Daly is as yet unable to quote the amount which his office enabled students in the University to earn during the past summer, but $13,278 was the aggregate income of the first 30 men to report since the opening of college...
...expenses will vary between $900 and $1200, depending upon a man's tastes, habits, and desires. It is extremely difficult for anyone to get through his first year if he has not at least $400 or $500 with which to start. It is possible for a man to earn from $5 to $20 a week during the term time apart from whatever he may receive through scholarships and the Loan fund. Occasionally men with special training or talent can obtain positions which pay much more than the above amounts...
...geisha calibre. The geisha then technically rents an apartment from her purchaser, who advances her credit wherewith to keep up her establishment. By this subterfuge, the geisha-house owners remain legally mere landlords. Actually they hold the geisha girls who are in their debt as security until they earn enough to pay off the credits extended them. Though in many cases the geisha die before they are debt free, six years is the approximate period of service after which the geisha are able to retire wth sufficient savings to live in modest comfort...
...will of Samuel William Farmer, rich Wilshire squire, was published. His entire estate amounting to ?400,000 ($1,945,000) was bequeather "to be used for the benefit of upper middle and professional class persons of both sexes who through ill health or advancing years are unable to earn a living...
...Happy" Martin, 20, reputed to earn $100 per week...