1636--1931

A lowly furnace used to figure prominently in many of the old romantic yarns about Harvard. The poor but earnest youth from the middle West who had come to Cambridge with $2.75 and a high school diploma was always meeting the professor's lovely daughter on the cellar stairs. It was all perfectly Victorian and respectable, of course. He was merely earning an honest penny by tending the furnace fire, while she, sweet and compassionate, simply felt a maternal interest in this rough, untutored youth from the sticks. Page by page he progressed from the cellar to the kitchen and finally to the parlor, where, beside a kerosene lamp and beneath the family portraits, interest blossomed into love. They invariably married. After he had made Phi Beta Kappa and had graduated summa cum laude, they went West to educate the heathen.

Romance today in the college towns, we understand, isn't so demure and genteel. Perhaps this is because so many professors now live in apartments or have oil burners. But students who need part-time jobs are just as plentiful, perhaps even more plentiful right now. Probably there are several thousand young men and women in Greater Boston who must earn money to help pay their college expenses this coming winter. Almost any modern boy can drive an automobile well, and possibly you might use one of them as a chauffeur a few days a week. Girls are still mighty useful and pleasant persons to have around the house.

In short, haven't you some sort of job that will enable a youngster to keep on in school instead of entering the already overcrowded ranks of wage-earners? A telephone call to any of the colleges in and around Boston will put you in touch with somebody who can give you what you need. --Boston Herald.