Word: huts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although connected closely in this way with the Harvard members, MIT teachers are financially separate. They pay for their expenses themselves and have no support from any undergraduate organization. The HUT's, on the other hand, receive a certain amount of money from PBH and the Graduate School of Education. Because of the importance of publicity, the GSE paid for pamphlets. It can give no further aid however. PBH has allocated up to $350 for HUT transportation and food expenses, but even with this support the students must pay part of their expenses...
...HUT members must make considerable financial sacrifice to teach under the present system, and MIT teachers even more. As it is, only relatively well-to-do "idealists" can afford to participate in the program. Scholarship students are effectively excluded as are many students with cars, Herzog reports. Most of the students could earn extra money tutoring if they were not in the HUT. Herzog is looking for an organization that will lend financial support so that the group can pay interested undergraduates a salary of $2.50 an hour plus transportation expenses...
...group is now organized, Goldberg keeps track of the HUT's as much as possible in his capacity of volunteer manager. Some of the noticeable vagueness is there on purpose, since a great organizational structure would freeze the group and hamper the project's flexibility. The group needs a paid manager, however, to maintain regular channels among the schools, the University, and the officers. The HUT backers are looking for someone familiar with "school politics" who would act as liason between schools' needs and the academic and social obligations of undergraduates. If the HUT can find a student interested...
...Cambridge HUT...
...before the HUT can expend much more it must get more schools to cooperate. Some interested schools are almost too far away for the program to be effective. (Transportation to Newton alone takes three quarters of an hour...