NATIONAL SCHOLARS HARD-WORKING BOYS DURING VACATIONS, POLL REVEALS

Not only do most of the National Scholars spend their summers holding down regular jobs in farming, business, or industry, but also their tendency has been to do two or three different types of work apiece in the last five years, according to results of a poll taken by Henry Chauncey '28, assistant dean of the College.

Dean Chauncey questioned 67 holders of the scholarships in the Senior, Junior, and Sophomore classes on their activities during the vacation months since their junior years in high school, and the answers give a definite proof that "Mr. Conant's little boys" do not spend their summers with their noses in textbooks.

Only two out of the 67 have held no job at all within the specified time, and 41, or more than 61 per cent, have worked at least half of one of the summers. Jobs were held every summer for the duration of the vacation by 13 men, or 17.9 per cent.

The Scholars have done a wide variety of work, ranging from teaching a Sunday school class of middle-aged women to bottling and selling wine, "a conventional job" according to its holder, "made a bit more lively, perhaps, by the commodity which I was handling."

One man kept an apiary for a summer while another drove a taxi. A third played the piccolo for a living, and one Scholar assisted in managing a flesta in New Mexico.

Only eight of the 67 who answered the questionnaire reported having had jobs as summer tutors or counselors at summer camps. Of the other 59 students, 57 were engaged in industrial, agricultural, or clerical occupations.