Word: laundermat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...editors' attention my concern for the effects of their Coxey crusade on non-HSA student enterprise, I twice stressed my personal impression that my own enterprise has received nothing but cooperation from that organization and from the Student Employment Office which sponsors it. Leland Chandler, Manager, Harvard Laundermat...
Chandler emphasized this distinction between the Laundermat and the HSA in a letter appearing on page two of today's CRIMSON...
Originally, the Laundermat was planned to be part of the HSA, but "they weren't able to finance it." The owner was offered the opportunity of forming an agency, but, according to Chandler, he "didn't want anything to do with...
There was, however, "an unwritten agreement" that Harvard students would be hired to work for the Laundermat. Chandler estimated that five to ten students would be employed on a part-time basis, "if business ever picks...
...This would be much better for the students from the Universitys point of view so far as earning money for students," Chandler asserted. "The HSA agencies don't really make much money for needy students, which is their purported purpose," he claimed, while the Laundermat "would make from $6,000 to $8,000 a year split up among the five or ten students...