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...report, compiled by Council Chairman Langdon P. Marvin, Jr. '41 and John C. Robbins, Jr. '42 and passed unanimously by the Council, stated that out of a total of 2,130 applicants for student employment last year, only a little more than half were given jobs, and that NYA aid would have done much to make up this disparity...
...Colleges Use NYA...
...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...
Nominating twelve candidates to represent them in the NYA conference at Washington Friday and Saturday, the Freshman class jumped into the national political arena yesterday...
Mary, 18, is plump, pink-cheeked, Catholic, the daughter of a musician who deserted his family for a chorus girl. Mary has a part-time NYA job, goes to evening college, not because she likes to study but because she believes it gives her prestige. She also shows her insecurity by constantly changing her hairdo. Mary likes to dance, mortally hates & fears being kissed by boys (a transfer of resentment against her father). Eventually, assured by her interviewer that there was no harm in kissing, Mary learned to like...