Word: worked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...students so far have applied for work in accounting, photography, line-typing, landscaping, playwriting, paint spraying, carpentry, coaching, reporting, operating a switchboard, plumbing, sign painting, window dressing, masonry, and refrigerator repairing. Seventy-six have applied for odd-job chore work, 59 for waiting on table, 42 for chauffeuring, 29 for room-for-service jobs, 26 for retail sales work, 25 for typing, three for reading, and two for work as subjects in psychology experiments...
Ordinarily about thirteen hundred undergraduates, more than one third of the college enrolment, register for work with the Student Employment Office each year. In addition about 500 graduate students usually apply for work...
During the school year the largest number of jobs is found in restaurants with typing jobs, entertainment positions, chore work, jobs as psychological subjects, chauffeur work, delivery work, and window washing following in order. Odd jobs always turn up, such as teaching chess, modeling for artists, or directing traffic...
...addition to helping the students get outside employment, Harvard for the past several years has appropriated $40,000 a year for student work within the University, as an emergency progress This Temporary Student Employment Plan has supported jobs in various university departments such as the Library. Astronomical Observatory, the Houses and Museums, by which about 180 students a year have earned about $250 each...
...most Freshmen, academics will be a hard grind from now until after midyear examinations, next February. Family, faculty advisors, and upperclassmen friends all say "Make a good impression. Work hard now if you never do again." And obedient Yardlings--too many of them--languish long afternoons and evenings in Boylston Hall, a little awed by the lecture method of teaching, more than a little worried by the inevitable unfinished History 1 assignments, sincerely terrified by the prospect of November and Midyear examinations. Most Freshmen, in other words, are too conscientious...