T. S. E. Closes Down

Back in the depression years when food prices were down and all other prices were up, the dining halls were clearing about $40,000 a year. At that time the Temporary Student Employment plan was set up, utilizing the profits from the dining halls to pay for jobs around the University. That profit has now been absorbed into the steadily rising cost of labor and food, making it necessary for TSE to be discontinued. The abandonment of the plan which has materially aided both students and the University will work hardships on several departments, as well as on some of the present job-holders.

For the departments, this newest war sacrifice will mean more cutting from their already thinned budgets, since from now on each department will have to pay its own student workers. More duties will have to be piled onto already overworked shoulders, and more belts will have to be tightened. But for this problem there is no immediate solution; the money simply does not exist.

From the students' point of view, the dropping of TSE means the cancellation of certain nonessential work which has been provided within the University. There will be some who are now working for the University who will find themselves without jobs, and will not receive other positions around Harvard. For those students, the adjustment to outside employers, a more rigid schedule, and the exacting work in competition with professionals will be difficult. But loans and scholarships have been increased, the number of student waiters has been tripled, and the application for a number of the $500 governmental loans should help to alleviate the cut in NYA allocations. There is ample work available, and the Student Employment Office is in a position to guarantee a job to any man who really needs it.