Word: students
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...September, 1957, when Harvard Student Agencies appeared as headquarters for and overseer of student business enterprises in the University, only 14 agencies were in operation. In its first two years, H.S.A. has collected 27 agencies under its ample wing, and the number of students employed has risen from 58 to 390, their net earnings from...
...H.S.A. director, says "it is hoped that one or two new businesses may be added each year to continue this growth process." The sudden creation of H.S.A., its impressive expansion and ambitious plans have aroused criticism. Established businessmen in the Square have feared the strategic position of H.S.A. in student sales; undergraduate publications, its potential as a competitor for advertising revenue; and other student businesses, its seeming desire to absorb all undergraduate enterprises into itself...
...H.S.A. now handles beer mugs, college banners, birthday cakes, desk blotters, charter flights to Europe, three linen services, magazine and newspaper subscriptions, refrigerators, class rings, stationery, reserve book returns, long-distance furniture moving, and, of course, "milk, doughnuts and sandwiches." It publishes a slick paper guide for summer school students, and in termtime, the weekly Student Calendar. It runs a grill in the Union and in Eliot House; it sells hot-dogs in the stadium...
...substitute for Albert J. Guerard, who is on leave, Professor Edel is handling the formidable Comparative Literature 166 ("The largest course I taught at N.Y.U. had about one hundred students"), a course titled Literature and Psychology, and a seminar on James. "Professor Guerard gives a course on the writing of fiction, you know, but I don't write fiction myself," he says. "However, this spring I will give a course in the writing of biography and criticism. A lot of careful thought goes into biographical writing. For instance, how much psychology should one use? I thought I might have...
Speaking to the Council on the Combined Charities Drive, Howard J. Phillips '62, co-chairman of the Drive Committee, pointed out the need for a strong campaign in the Yard and suggested a goal of $15,000. Albert L. Jacobs '61, secretary of the Harvard Student Council, announced that he and Lewis B. Oliver, Jr., '61 would act as liason between the Student and Freshman Councils...