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Meanwhile, the 83 men who arrived last week from STAR units at the University of New Hampshire and the College of the City of New York have been put to work drilling and doing menial garden tasks for the Army. They are working while awaiting their first classes, which are still nearly a month away...
...Look, Professor Dupesceau," we said with our customary and fearless method of leaping directly into conversation. "Why's it that you, toast of cultured society, cream of intellectual circles, student and scholar divine, have accepted the menial and lowly rank of Seaman 14th Class? Is it your love of democracy, your desire to investigate life--even below the masses--that prompts you to such action...
Behind the scenes, several forces besides financial necessity were at work. One theory which finds strong backing in the University's Administration runs something like this: if a graduate takes a job with only his A.B. degree as bargaining power, he will be forced to accept a menial job with menial pay. The only way to prevent such "exploitation" is training in one of the various graduate schools. Abolishing the Placement Bureau would thus have the effect of encouraging the jobless office-door vagrants to continue for another three years at some University, possibly Harvard...
Little time will be wasted during the competition on menial work, and candidates for the program-production board will immediately be given definite assignments, while candidates for the technical board will soon have a chance to learn the intricacies of the "control board...
...three days out of the week and for six weeks the harried "slaves" will carry buckets, do menial jobs, curry favor, and obey the whims of their superiors. When the competition closes November 8, the winner, who will have earned his '45 numerals, will manage the final practices and, along with his assistants, who have survived the contest, take charge of the Yale Freshman game on November...