Students Will Sell Sandwiches, Milk In Houses Today

The House Refreshment Agency--a student organization under the auspices of the Student Employment Office--starts business tonight. It will sell sandwiches, milk and ice cream in five of the Houses and Claverly.

Only Eliot and Dunster--both of which already have their own service--will not be served by the group, headed by student manager James W. Kirkpatrick '53. Freshmen already have their own Yard Service, operated by another group.

Two students in each House will handle the job, one working three nights a week, the other, two. At present, the service will be run from Sunday to Thursday only.

The salesmen, already selected by the Aid Center according to need, will pick up their baskets at the Eliot House Grillo around 9 p.m., and then go from entry to entry in their own Houses, signalling students with a whistle.

The organization, completely non-profit, is partly patterned upon a system which is highly successful at Princeton. Unlike workers in Nassau, however, workers here will not only get a flat dollar an hour rate, but, if there are any profits, get a proportionate bonus at the end of the year.

At Princeton, last year, the program made over $10,000 employing almost 25 students, and was used to help support other undergraduate employment programs which fell into the red. Although Graham W. Tayler '48, Director of the Student Office, hopes to expand the program here, it will at present employ only 11.

Tayler, whose idea it was to start the system at Harvard Employment, studied the Princeton set-up carefully and had been assisted by Layman Allen, Princeton '51, an assistant in the Employment Office. The program was approved by the five House masters at their November meeting.