Word: earned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business. Young Mr. Geyer is a great and good friend of Charles Franklin Kettering, General Motors' research chief. Cornerstone of the Geyer business has been several big accounts of General Motors, including Delco, Inland Manufacturing and Frigidaire, with its $5,000,000 annual appropriation. Well did Geyer Co. earn General Motors' patronage for it has handled Frigidaire's account during the years that Frigidaire sales reached the 2.500,000 mark-1,000,000 more than any other refrigerator...
...spite of its liberal backing of needy students, Harvard is not an easy place for the average man who must earn part of his expenses. The estimated minimum expense of $1100 is somewhat above that which prevails at state universities and many colleges of small size. Also, because of the tutorial system and general examinations, and the fact that, unlike in most colleges, a student is expected to begin advanced work at the commencement of his sophomore year instead of his junior year, more time must be devoted to studies than in some college, which means correspondingly less time...
Summer School students who teach in high or preparatory schools might render a service to pupils interested in coming to Harvard by bringing these facts to their attention. Each year a few students who do not secure scholarships or waiting jobs enter the College hoping somehow to earn enough to carry them through the year. The College would like to see them succeed, but its facilities for aid, after all, are finite, and it cannot render assistance beyond its own resources. It is distressing to see these over-hopeful Freshmen obliged to drop out in the middle of the year...
...editorial columns of the CRIMSON Monday the problem of student-waiters in the Houses was suggested as pertinent for consideration in the Student Council's annual report. Patently, the depression has increased the number of men who must earn all or part of their college, expenses, and has made it inversely difficult for them to find employment either within or outside the University. The administration's somewhat ineffectual attempt to sidestep the whole question of employing students in the dining halls by the creation of special and often artificial jobs has been of some help in the past year...
...introduction of student waiters should only be viewed, as a temporary expedient, since it may interfere with the purpose of the House Plan. It would, however, give jobs to over one hundred and fifty men, who by working three days one week and four days the next could earn their board. The money now paid waitresses could be used to reduce the tuition fees of the waiters. And the apparent social inequality could be somewhat mitigated by having students serve only in Houses other than their own and allowing them to eat in their own Houses when not working...