200 MEN BACK TO SEEK JOBS

More than two hundred students have cut short their summer vacation by a week or more to return to Cambridge and start looking for outside jobs to help pay their expenses, it was reported today by Charles W. Duhig, acting director of the Student Employment Office.

While students have applied for a wide variety of jobs, most of them at present are seeking work which will earn room or board or both, Duhig said. For room, the students tend furnaces, cut lawns, wash windows, and do other chores taking an hour a day; for board, they wash dishes or wait on table.

The students so far have applied for work in such varied fields as housepainting, clothes-pressing, photography, bill collecting, ushering, truck driving, and baby-tending. Large numbers have applied for odd-job chore work, chauffeuring, for retail sales work, and for typing.

Through college assistance, on the average over a thousand students a year ordinarily find term-time and summer employment, and in good years earn between $200,000 and $300,000 to help finance their schooling.

Ordinarily about thirteen hundred undergraduates, more than one third of the College enrollment, register for work with the Student Employment Office each year. In addition about 500 graduate students usually apply for work.

During the school year the largest number of jobs is found in restaurants, typing, entertainment positions, chorework, jobs as psychological subjects, chauffeur work, delivery work, and window washing. Odd jobs always turn up, such as teaching chess, modelling for artists, or directing traffic.

This summer about 400 students have held vacation positions, many of them as tutor-companions or camp councillors, or in hotel work.

In addition to helping the students get outside employment, Harvard for the past several years has appropriated $40,000 a year for undergraduate work within the University, as an emergency program. This Temporary Student Employment Plan has supported jobs in various university departments such as the Library, Astronomical Observatory, the Houses and Museums, by which about 150 students a year have earned about $250 each.