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...education. It is unwise, however, to raise the fee for all, because a larger fee would keep away the poor. But there is no reason why the rich should share the benefit of gifts to the college and of endowment funds--created in many instances by people less well-to-do than themselves. Why not, therefore, charge the rich just what their education costs the college...
...Harvard Mission has received word concerning several teaching positions in schools and colleges in China, which are open to college graduates. Two men are wanted to sail within a month or six weeks, to teach English in a well-to-do private school for boys. Men who have had experience or training in teaching English to foreigners would be especially welcome. A three year contract is offered. The salary is $150 (Mexican) a month, and travelling expenses to and from China are also paid. A summer vacation with pay is provided...
...America the job is the most important property in so far as its income producing ability is concerned. The attitude of well-to-do people differs from that of the unskilled worker only in so far that the people better off are able to stand a few weeks or months of unemployment while the other chap may be forced to the verge of charity by only a few days of joblessness. The unskilled laborer often cannot earn enough to save; the skilled laborer can. Ever since I faced the situation of having to get a position as an unskilled worker...
...well-to-do are all too likely to assume that everything is all right for the workingmen if 500 are out of work in Pittsburg but there are 500 jobs open in Chicago. Contrary to the general opinion, this situation does not balance, for the unskilled man in Pittsburg is quite unlikely to have enough funds saved to permit him to go to Chicago. Even if he should let the employment agent pay his expense, he might reach that city only to find that he couldn't keep the job, and yet had no money with which to return...
...reduction. In these days of the ubiquitous income tax receipt, it is not hard to discover the average man's financial resources. But even in default of this, rebates might be made proportional to other college expenses. A combination of the two methods would certainly serve to prevent well-to-do boys "with the commercial instinct strong within them," as the "Quadwrangler" puts it, from trying to beat the college down...