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OUTSIDE EMPLOYMENT DEMANDED BY 1,161 MEN

Forty Per Cent of Undergraduates in Need of Work--Students Fill Large Number of Positions

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Forty per cent of the Harvard undergraduate student body has made application for work through the university employment office, where 1,161 students have their names on file. In the past year, students have earned $114,433 through this office, by virtue of 1,365 temporary and 537 steady jobs.

The principal outside jobs filled were those of waiters, window-washers, snow shovelers, clerks, tutors, entertainers, and chore workers. Within the University, much work has been done in the various buildings, in the way of repairs and new construction. In the Peabody Museum at present, a student is repairing a totem pole, others are mending ancient skeletons, and cementing excavated fragments of pottery.

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