Word: porter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could extend the student porter plan to all the Houses and dormitories. Residents of Dunster and Thayer have said they are completely satisfied with the porters' work, and that it is as good as the maids'. However, the University is having trouble finding enough porters now to take care of the work in Dunster and Thayer since exams are approaching...
...reason for this porter lack is the fact that, in another innovation this year, 80 or so students are doing part of the "dirty work" in the University's kitchens. As opposed to those who work in the serving lines, these men wash dishes, clean up, and scrub pots. They are paid 86 cents an hour and get the meals they work on deducted from their board bills...
Together, the porter and kitchen jobs this year have taken off much of the pressure to find steady jobs within the University that has always burdened the Employment Office. Taylor and Monro both point out, however, that despite their desire to get students into University jobs which were formerly held by outsiders, no maids or kitchen helpers have been fired. "We have simply not hired replacements for outside workers who retired or who went to work else-where," says Taylor...
...Both the porter and kitchen positions fall into the category of "priority jobs," a system that was instituted experimentally last spring and with which Holt is believed to have disagreed. Monro and Taylor have divided all jobs into two kinds--priority and casual. Priority jobs are roughly defined as those inside and outside the University which will net a student more than $100 a year. Right now most of the 500 priority jobs (300 inside the University, 200 outside) pay between $250 and $400. Some (nightwatchmen and night switch-board operators especially) earn as much...
...schools as Princeton, where almost 40 percent of the students are regularly employed. There is a defininte possibility that employment money may some day equal the amount given out in scholarships. That is the goal for which Taylor, Munro, and Bender are striving. The success of failure of the porter plan, the kitchen help and the whole priority system will in a great part determine what the Harvard of 1960 will be like...