Employment Office to Provide Part-Time Jobs for Students

More than three hundred Harvard students cut short their summer vacation by a week or more to return to Cambridge and start looking for outside jobs to help pay their expenses, it was reported today by Russell T. Sharpe '28, director of the Student Employment Office.

Through college assistance, on the average over a thousand Harvard students a year ordinarily find term time and summer employment, and in good years earn between $200,000 and $300,000 to help finance their schooling, Sharpe said.

While the students have applied for a wide variety of jobs, most of them at present are seeking work which will earn room or board or both. For a room, the students mind furnaces, cut lawns, wash windows, and do other chores taking an hour a day; for board they wash dishes or wait on table.

Varied Work Sought

The 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.

1300 Undergraduates Usually Apply

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.

In 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.