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According to John J. Merrill '66, manager of IGS and one of the three full-time non-student employees (all other employees are students), the organization is unique in offering high salaries--the minimum wage is $2 per hour--for jobs which are both interesting and educational. About 200 students are on call at any one time...
Whatever the solution, the poor need no longer suffer the extremes of actual hunger and physical debilitation. By guaranteeing a minimum income to every one of its citizens, a society as affluent as today's America can afford not only to keep its economic cripples well housed, well fed?and well?but also to provide them with the crucial increment of dignity that is denied by penury...
Finding such a site has not been easy. Ideally, it should be close to the Houghton neighborhood, to avoid the bussing of children to school, and yet should cause a minimum of inconvenience to persons living near the classrooms. Both the B- School field and a DeWolfe St. Site owned by Harvard and the Archdiocese of Boston appear to meet these criteria. The Houghton PTA has unofficially welcomed the proposed locations...
...final concert last Saturday evening. If the group has been noticeably under the weather in past appearances this year, especially since the departure of permanent conductor James Yannatos, it is now on the way toward a total recovery. Appearing with a string section pared down to the absolute minimum, the orchestra seems to have reached a solid foundation on which to begin reconstruction. Next year, if full size can be reached without diluting present competence, the orchestra should be prepared to indulge all but the wildest programming whims...
...indicated their four choices, he explained, the House Assignment Committee--a standing committee of the Faculty--set to work. "Our first aim is to please the students," Watson said, "but we have to stay within certain limits." Each House, for example, has a rank list quota to determine the minimum number of students from each academic "group" the House must admit...