Word: pay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is a danger, however, that the ultimate objectives of the course may be obscured under the exemption plan. Seminar leaders who offer to supervise the writing work of freshmen must be prepared to pay more-than-ordinary attention to students' writing. They must do more than grade and discuss paper as exercises within a specific discipline; they must work to develop students' general prose ability as well...
Harvard has the highest pay scale in the entire Ivy League, perhaps even in the nation. For example, unskilled laborers receive $1.35 per hour plus certain free meals here; at Columbia, the comparable hourly rate in $1.05. In addition, the Harvard pay scale is based upon a 40-hour week, while Yale, which pays the second-highest wages among these schools, goes on the basis of a 48-hour week...
...Dining Hall Department cannot change the hourly pay rates, Tucker pointed out, since the union contract establishing the scale is decided by the Bureau of Personnel for the entire University. Tucker's administration must accept this rate, and consequently a new wage contract often causes a rise in board fees...
...just a case of the jets v. the jetless. The voting was all over the lot by chaps with pistons, chaps with turboprops and chaps with both, not to speak of some who have jets on order and are now beginning to wonder how they are going to pay for them...
...Oilman Getty suddenly decided to live it up? Not at all, said he. His only purpose in buying, he told the London press, was to avoid paying those hotel bills. "I generally have a group of business associates with me, and I have worked out that our combined hotel bills will be more than is required to run a stately home. If your name is Getty, you can't expect to be allowed to live in a hotel for less than $100 a day." Retaining his composure, the Ritz manager said that customary manners leave Getty's Ritz...