AN ISSUE ENDED

Doubly blessed are the men who can in these parious times seek refuge in the Universities for there is not only spiritual nourishment, but even something more satisfying in the pit of the stomach in these days of half rations or nothing at all. All of which is by way of preface to a few remarks on the details announced in this CRIMSON of the new jobs given to University men. Harvard has apparently canvassed every department and building to create a number of positions equal to the necessities of the many students who now find themselves thrown in part upon their own resources. Many of these offices, such as those of "two guards in the (Adams House) Gold Room," and "one man . . . to carry the sick list twice a day to the various House Masters," are pretty palpably cooked up, a testimony to the broadminded generosity of the gentlemen who drew up the report. Others are of a more permanent and useful nature, though no better calculated to the purpose of taking a little hard-given money out of the pocket of the University for the benefit of the student.

Few will stint applause, or damn with faint praise this much needed measure. Other plans for meeting the situation had been suggested, but probably none would have met with as full a measure of approbation from the student body at large, or from those employed, even though they might have saved Harvard a considerable sum. The single question of the fate of those not cared for by this scheme remains. These positions have been assigned to House residents alone, and there must be a number of men in the graduate schools and undergraduates living, for the sake of economy, in private houses, who must not be forgotten. The University has handled its own employment problem wisely and magnanimously, and it is to be hoped, completely.