Word: earned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year nearly half the male students in U. S. colleges earned part of their expenses. From 15% to 25% were entirely selfsupporting. At the same time that more students needed jobs, work grew harder to find. Chores that college boys used to do now gave employment to heads of families. Last week, with college employment bureaus everywhere worried about positions for their charges, the Harvard Crimson made a drastic suggestion: Bar from college all students who must earn their whole way through...
...support himself and at the same time realize the full advantages of a college education must be destroyed, and there is no better way to do it than by refusing admission to men who are compelled to spend so much time and go to such ends to earn money for themselves that they lose many of the most essential benefits of a college education...
...show himself capable of carrying through the double task ought to be given every feasible encouragement and opportunity to undertake it." The New York World-Telegram, citing Herbert Hoover as a student who worked his way through college, exclaimed: "There would be more sense in barring those who earn none of their expenses than those who earn...
Cornell University's working students (40% of the total) earn $225,000 per year. More students are seeking work than ever before and jobs are so limited that the university is faced with the prospect of losing many bankrupt upper classmen...
...pawnbroker, to piece out his father's wages from the mines, his mother sorrowfully tells him what must be his life's philosophy: "It's not what tha wants, lad, it's what tha's got to do." At 14 he wants to earn some money for his family, but he has got to become a coal miner to do that. Down into the pithead goes Danny among the sooty veterans who, when they stop to think, curse the darkness into which they have been born. There is a certain amount of camaraderie below...