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Dates: during 1910-1919
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More than $19,000 was earned during the last academic year by students seeking employment through the aid of the University Employment Bureau. Of this sum, over one-half was received by men holding tutorial positions of some sort. The next three most popular forms of employment were in the order named, positions as clerks, walters and musicians, these jobs having brought in $1382, $1257, and $1005 respectively...
...Clerking Popular...
...most popular position was that of clerk, 68 being thus employed. Thirty-four worked as tutors, 28 as choremen, 23 as salesmen, 22 each as ushers and waiters, 17 as agents, 12 each as gardeners and guides, and 11 as musicians. The list of various kinds of positions was not limited to these lines of work, however, but included 39 separate sorts of jobs: accountants, agents, attendants, boys' club workers, care-takers, chauffeurs, choremen, clerks, coaches, companions, computers, correctors, draughtsmen, errand boys, farmers, gardeners, guides, hat checkers, hotel clerks, librarians, monitors, musicians, note takers, proctors, proof readers, readers, research workers...
...universities are not asked to discourage freedom of speech; rather they are asked to encourage it. But license must not be substituted for freedom in academic any more than in popular utterance. Radical propagandists in universities or in the market place, whether they are spreading their doctrines boldly or surreptitiously should be suppressed. Any man, or group of men, thinking a Republic founded on that of Russia is preferable to this free land of ours, should be promptly deported...
...organization of our youth in patriotic service is one of the most distinguished developments of the period of uprousal through which we have passed. The proclamation of President Wilson, recommending the observation of a "Boy Scout Week" early next month, throughout the land, undoubtedly gives expression to the popular sentiment of approval...