Word: occulted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard's administration is wonderfully thrifty when scrubwomen are involved. Chambermaids in the dormitories are not covered by the minimum wage law, for some occult reason; so several of the discharged scrubwomen have been given jobs as chambermaids, who get only 32 cents an hour. Some inconsistency has been pointed out in the paying of cleaning women at the Fogg art museum 37 cents an hour--what the minimum wage commission asked for the scrubwomen in the library. But the extra two cents for the art museum, cleaners are contributed by a generous alumnus whose name should not be withheld...