The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-07-25
4 STUDENT HOST
IS NOW EMPLOYED.
4 Large Number Of Harvard
Men Have Secured Sum-
mer Employment.
ALL PROVE GOOD WORKERS
PLENTY or OCCUPATIONS ARE
FOUND BY THE ENERGETIC
ONES RANGING FROM TENDING
BAR TO PREACHING.

Boston, June 24.-That any student |
with energy. strength and ability IS
pretty sure to find some kind Of work |
for the summer vacation is shown by |
the information in regard to the num-
Der OF students who worked during the
summer vacation OF 1908, gathered last
fall by the appointments Office of Har-
ward university.
This employment bureau is conduct |
ed under the direction of r. H. Wells,
secretary for appointments, and here
any member Of the university may find
employment for the summer months.
In answer to the inquiries sent out
last autumn among students in all de-
partments of the university 2,463 re-
plies were received.
ct the students who found work |
through the office for the summer OF
19OS-summer being considered three
months-1,0 42 were employed In a
variety of occupations and received
pay for their services; 242 worked
without pay-for the most part in posi-
lions where experience might be gain
ed for a professional career after grad
uation-1O7 studied and 1,O72 were un-
employed. The estimated amount Of
the salaries received was SIT, 161. II,
or an average of $17oO2 per man.
Preacher to Bartender.
The list of occupations include near
~ 100 different forms Of employment,
ranging from preaching to tending bar.
According to the statistics eight stu
dents were engaged in advertising; six
teen were connected with automobiles,
thirty worked In banks, nine had to do
with boats, two of whom served as
boatmen and life guard at seaside
resort, one assistant purser, another as
cook, and still another as foremost
hand; fifty-one were in camps, many
as tutors or companions to boys: thir-
ty-six were canvassers, including one
who worked in the service of the gov
eminent as census tal1er; eight were
carpenters, including makers OF pic
ture puzzles.
In addition. ffty-six we're clerks or
ONCE boys. thirteen dranghtsmen, If
teen engineers or surveyors, twenty
worked at q variety of occupations in
1aCLOTlCS, IuITly-uNC WCIC AdA III AoAAuSs
forty-three were in hotels, represent
ing eleven different kinds of hotel
work, from manager to bellboy, while
somc served as musicians; twenty-four
worked on newspapers as editor, direc-
tor of paper route. reporter, trouble
chaser ETC.; six were on railroads.
both steam and electric, and eighty
two acted as tutors.
The Scope 10 Wide.
The scope OF the appointment Office
Is wide, and this year the men engaged
through this ONCE will be scattered
from the Atlantic to the Pacific. One
will be employed on the Panama canal,
while another will attend the exposi-
ton at Seattle as tutor to a boy in
preparatory school.
Although founded for the purpose
OF afforting summer employment for
students Of the university. the office Is
by no means . charitable institution.
It In run on strictly business principles.
An applicants for positions are caro-
fully examined as. to their fitness and
when there are several applicants for
one position, the ability and fitness OF
the candidates decides the allotment.