PROFESSORS' ASSISTANTS.
ARE THEY BEING SWEATED? Whether it is a fact or not that the professors' assistants at Victoria College are being "sweated" is a question which is now engaging the attention of the College Council. At the meeting of the council last, evening it was decided to ask the professors to report "what their assistants were doing, the classes they were taking, nnd the.hours they were employed (including the correction of exer-cisos)-(a) before 5 p.m., and (b) after 5 The position was, explained the chairman (Mr. H. F. von Haast), that tho professors' assistants were engaged as "part-time", assistants, not "whole time. It now appeared that some of them were being employed the whole time. We didn't engage these assistants to sweat them," said Mr. von Haast. "They are engaged at .£SO a year, and they should be afforded opportunity for earning a living at other occupations 'luring the day, when not on duty as part-time assistants (from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.). Here we are working them the whole time for a miserable wage of .£50." The council, he added, should know what the exact position was.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1106, 20 April 1911, Page 5
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189PROFESSORS' ASSISTANTS. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1106, 20 April 1911, Page 5
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