Word: employment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Admiral Byrd is now returning from the South Pole, the present situation can be remedied. Certainly the Corporation might employ him to find out what has happened to the 40,000 graduates living west of Worcester, a town now freed from the Indian menace we are told. He might even find a well-fed mammal who not only lives in New York but was breeded there. Or better yet, he might find another Conant around Boston who could attend all the meetings and yet lend a new slant on the Harvard New Deal...
Three general plans of action by the University suggest themselves. 1. The authorities could forbid all undergraduates from taking part in businesses selling services to students. In place of this, laundries and pressing shops would employ men as solicitors on a straight percentage basis. While there are no exact figures on the total income under the present system, it is estimated that such a change as this would not substantially alter the amount earned. 2. The financial affairs of student businesses could be opened to the inspection of University Hall. A bond, similar to the one required of applicants...
Opening their seasons this afternoon, the Varsity and Freshman fencing teams will meet the Hartford Fencers' Club and Governor Dummer Academy, respectively. Coach Rone Peroy will use his strongest Varsity men, but he said yesterday that he expected to employ a weak group of Freshman fencers. Both teams will joust at the Indoor Athletic Building, the Freshmen at 2 o'clock, and the Varsity...
...single exception of this item, every current expenditure of whatever nature will be fully covered by our estimates of current receipts. Such deficit as occurs will be due solely to this cause, and it may be expected to decline as rapidly as private industry is able to re-employ those who now are without work...
...that in this year's budget message, unlike last year's, the President set no date, however remote, for balancing the budget, proposed no means, however vague, for doing so. Instead, he left the question of ending recurring deficits to such time as private industry may re-employ the unemployed. And his work relief plans meant that the per capita cost of maintaining the unemployed would continue on a scale greater than ever before...