Word: paid
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...will be the cost of printing various class literature, clerical work, and many other attendant expenses of Commencement Week. Hence it is absolutely essential that every member of the Class send in his pledge to the Class Fund immediately, and that the first installment of the sum pledged be paid promptly on or before June...
...Fund,--but it must be remembered that it is only a start. Even before the war teachers were underpaid, and a 50 per cent, raise in the wages does not nearly offset the 100 per cent in prices since then. A maximum salary of $8,000 to the highest paid professor shows that there is still much to be desired...
...quite obvious. Every other prominent orchestra in the country has allowed its members to unionize. In New York the Philharmonic pays its violinists a minimum wage of seventy-five dollars a week; in Detroit but few symphony players receive as little as forty-five, while in Boston many are paid thirty-five dollars. As the men are prevented from unionizing their time is virtually at the mercy of the conductor and the trustees. Overtime pay, for extra work with the orchestra, earned by the more highly salaried musicians in other cities, is unknown here...
...upon which students may drop half-courses beginning in the second half-year without being held for the tuition in these courses. During the current week students are charged only $5 for any change of course, but after tomorrow the full amount of extra tuition, $10, must be paid...
...recent action of Congress in rejecting the State Department's bill providing for an increase in diplomatic salaries is one which most thoughtful citizens will deplore. Our present scale of salaries is woefully inadequate, the compensation in the higher grades averaging about one-third of that paid by other powers. Under such circumstances it is not strange that most persons find themselves unable to accept important positions; and partly as a result of this, no less than fifteen of our diplomatic posts are at present vacant, at a time when our interests urgently demand representatives of the highest order...