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Through the University Student Employment Office thirteen hundred students, more than one-third of the college enrollment, last year received term-time and summer jobs netting $204,000 in wages, it was reported today by Dean George F. Plimpton, in charge of Student Employment and Alumni Placement.
The total reported earnings of Undergraduates, including work obtained through the employment office, $40,000 in wages appropriated under the emergency Temporary Student Employment Plan, and wages from other organizations such as the CRIMSON and Phillips Brooks House, amounted to $313,000, an increase of 5.8 per cent over the figure for the preceding year.
Waiters, numbering 229 in all, received wages amounting to $32,000, the largest total for any term-time student occupation. Included in the 48 varieties of work were such odd jobs as teaching chess, modelling for artists, traffic directing, and snow shoveling.
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