Word: employed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...persons taking rooms in Holyoke House or Matthews will be required, if they employ any one, to employ the janitor of the building, to make fires, black boots, bring water, etc. It is hoped in this way to secure better care of the rooms, and to prevent the damage which is often done to the walls and floors by careless scouts...
...services employ...
...they do their work. What kind of attention can we expect a woman will give to sweeping and dusting, who is paid only forty cents a week for the care of each room under her charge? The trouble lies in the parsimony of the financial managers, who prefer to employ the untidy, clumsy, unintelligent Irish at the rate of fourteen or eighteen dollars per month (in proportion to the number of rooms cleaned), than to secure, at slightly higher rates, neat, careful, and efficient workwomen...
Although no one society is of sufficient magnitude to employ salaried officials, there seems to be no reason why several of them should not club together and establish a sort of bureau of management. At the present time there are plenty of experienced clerks and book-keepers out of employment, who would be only too glad to keep the books and manage the money matters of college societies. The Boat Club, the Base-Ball Club, the Foot-Ball Club, etc., might join together to employ a regular salaried clerk to manage their business, to send out and collect bills...
...done away with, bringing little or no inconvenience to the domestic economy of Memorial Hall. At present lunch is from half past twelve to half past one; the students who come out of recitation at twelve are obliged to waste a half-hour before lunch, or at least to employ such a small space of time to little advantage. This half-hour is of some importance to those who have recitations early in the afternoon, and would be of use but for its coming at such a time, and making it impossible to give continuous attention to the study...