Word: nya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contributed materially to the community's welfare and to the community's respect for the University. But there have been perrennial defects impairing the efficiency and scope of the enterprise. One of the major defects now seems possible of solution for the first time, with the advent of NYA aid at Harvard...
Backers of the movement for Faculty approval of the NYA at Harvard decided in a meeting last night to sever their connections with the HSU and all other committees, in an effort to make the issue purely one of the NYA's merits...
...normal years, it was affirmed, 50 to 100 students are forced to leave college because they cannot make ends meet financially. Not only these exceptional cases would be benefited by NYA; to the typical hard-pressed student, "Eli Harvard '44," it would be "the marginal fund which makes his year a success instead of a drudgery...
...NYA information pamphlets say that the work provided is designed to help the student continue "properly" his education. Thus it might enable Eli to "go home at Christmas time or to buy much-needed new clothes." If Eli is a commuter, the extra money might enable him to "join Dudley Hall (where he can meet fellow students and relax) instead of having to eat his lunch out of a paper bag in Boyiston Reading Room...
Administration would involve the same problems generally as does the T.S.E., it was asserted, and therefore both programs could be managed from the present T.S.E, office. Expense could be reduced to a minimum by employing the administrative assistants themselves on NYA funds, which was done successfully at Tufts College...