Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following men have been appointed to act as judges: W. E. Sedgewick '22, Instructor and Tutor in the Division of Modern Languages, P. P. Chase '99, Lecturer and Tutor in the Division of History, Government, and Economics, and Director of the Summer School, and John Welynn...
...Whenever a college man applies to me for a job I never inquire about his scholastic standing," recently remarked a business man, himself a university graduate. "What I want to know is how he spent his summer vacations--three months per annum, and before he gets his degree that amounts to a whole year, the most valuable I think, of his entire collegiate course. Never again will he have a similar opportunity. If he has wasted it, I know something about him; if not, he has a record worth showing...
That ought to give college men something to think about. The average collegian regards the summer holidays merely as a period of recreation and rarely thinks of them as the chance of a lifetime. Of course, a large number of students obtain work of various kinds during July, August and September, but the ordinary summer job has little or no educational value . . . If it is a case of necessity, any work is justified, but not otherwise. By carefully planning his vacation program almost any enterprising young man can do far better. He can fill the whole or part...
...During the past few weeks the office has made every effort possible to secure a maximum number of summer jobs, through direct mail advertising and soliciting of the summer hotels, camps, and business houses in New England and New York. As the summer positions begin to come in, the staff will be glad to explain opportunities to any men who are interested...
...statement to the CRIMSON, Daly states that "Any members of the University who are interested in securing employment for the coming summer are invited to call at the Student Employment Office in University Hall and register. The opportunities for Summer employment are both numerous and varied. As in years past we expect to have calls for men to serve as tutor-companions, tutors, camp councillors, caretakers, physical directors, life-guards, boatmen, salesmen, chauffeurs, guides, and in many other capacities, including business lines...