The following is the text of the report of the Student Council on "Financial and Employment Aids for Students," which recommended that the University accept National Youth Administration scholarships. Prepared by Langdon P. Marvin, Jr. '41 and John C. Robbins, '42, the report was unanimously passed by the Council Wednesday night and was released for publication Thursday.

As in several previous reports, the Student Council is again considering the problem of financial aids for students. It is to the credit of Harvard that a college education is offered to students whose families are in all different income brackets. A true cross-section of the youth of the nation can be maintained in the college only if there is abundant opportunity for students to earn scholarships or to work their way. It is with this problem that we are concerned.

Work for students is arranged by the Student Employment Office, which serves as an agency selecting students for employers outside the college, and which also administers the Temporary Student Employment plan (which supplies jobs as librarians, assistants in museums, etc.) financed out of Dining Hall profits, etc.

Not Enough Jobs

There is a considerable disparity between the demand and supply of jobs, and the conclusion is obvious that many students would like to earn more money than they are at present. T.S.E. unfortunately is a very limited source of supply. First of all, commuters, out of house men and graduate students are excluded from it. Secondly, T.S.E. does not have enough jobs to equal the demand of even the undergraduates living in the Houses who are eligible.

It was estimated by Mr. Sharpe (quoted in Student Council Report on "Student Food Service" Apr.1940) that in the normal year 50-100 students are forced to leave college mainly for financial reasons. While that number was reduced last year, the conclusion should not be drawn that the financial problem of students is solved. The large burden on the families of many students, and on the pocketbooks of many students themselves, could well be partly relieved by additional financial or employment aid.

Commuters and Graduate Students

These two groups are especially in need of some from of additional aid. The commuters cannot accept jobs waiting on tables nor room-for-service jobs. They are ineligible for T.S.E. and they receive no employment aid from the University. Like the Graduate Students they are dependent on cash jobs outside the University, and such positions are not easily found.

REASONS FOR N.Y.A. HERE

The above-cited figures indicate that an increase in financial aid for students is very necessary. Therefore, the Student Council Committee recommends very strongly that Harvard University apply for funds from the National Youth Administration in order to start a Student Work Program. It would then be possible to obtain jobs for 10% of the University's enrollment, enabling approximately 600 students to earn an average of $15 per month-or $135 for the college year. The Student Council Committee puts forward several important reasons in favor of N.Y.A.:

1) It would fill a large gap in the University's program of employment aid.

2) It would benefit not only the neglected commuters and graduate students but also the undergraduates.

Better Type of Job

3) It would provide a much better type of job for students than those held by many students at present. In order that they may complete their education students are paid by the N.Y.A. for doing public or semi-public work. In other words, boys can find jobs as librarians, laboratory assistants, typists, workers in museums, assistants to professors, etc., instead of having to take jobs waiting on tables in Boston hotels and night clubs, selling shoes, etc. The former type of job could work in nicely with a man's study program whereas the latter takes many hours a week out of his college work.

4) N.Y.A. work would also enable the University to complete many projects in the museums, laboratories, etc., which cannot be handled now due to lack of funds. Thus a N.Y.A. work program which pays a student a catalogue material in a library or to help a professor in research work benefits both the student and the University. Furthermore the jobs could be such as to benefit all the undergraduates as well-for example, if the number of Librarians were doubled with half paid (as how) by T.S.E. and the other half by N.Y.A.