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Although the regular wages of most University employees have been maintained, several painters and carpenters in the regular employ of the institution have been "staggered", being permitted to work only four days a week at their regular wages...
...Business School does not plan to conduct or supervise the tour, but only wishes to encourage, during this year of industrial depression, the students who cannot secure positions to employ their time in a manner which is as profitable educationally...
...Great Britain a musquash pelt is worth only about a shilling. Britons can get their furs more cheaply from the Continent. The British muskrat-fur industry, started after the War to employ ex-servicemen, has so languished that the animals have been turned loose upon the countryside. Though vegetarians, muskrats have been accused in Britain of devouring poultry and swine, of damming small streams and destroying the banks of the larger ones, of obstructing drainage and causing floods...
...President is authorized to employ in his official household . . . one private secretary ... at $3,500 ... one assistant secretary who shall be a shorthand writer . . . two executive clerks . . . one steward . . . one messenger...
...answer frequent criticism that Yale, like many another big college, has gone on a building spree, the appeal for funds gives figures showing how income is spent. Last year 23% went for maintenance of plant and buildings; 77% for strictly educational purposes. Next year Yale plans to employ 20 less instructors than at present but the same number of professors...