Word: alumni
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Samuel Huntington Wolcott '03, of Boston and Readville, was appointed Commencement Day marshal for 1928 at a recent meeting of the Directors of the Harvard Alumni Association. The selection was in accord with the tradition that the marshal shall be a member of the class, which celebrates on Commencement Day the twenty-fifth anniversary of its graduation from college...
...Alumni Appointment Office was instrumental in securing positions for 174 men last year, and all have reported what salaries they are earning. The total is $310,408. The Business School placed 168 men last year, but no salaries have been reported as yet. The Engineering School placed 16 graduates...
...Social Ethics and Zoology aided 51 men in securing positions, of which number 45 have reported that they ahe earning $106,080. The Harvard Clubs throughout the country report that they have placed 20 men, and 17 of them report that they are earning $43,060. Of the 448 Alumni situated 273 have reported their aggregate salaries...
...with somewhat of a shock that one learns, in the annual report of the Alumni Appointment Office, that there are at least 2259 unemployed or dissatisfied-with-their-present-position Harvard graduates...
...ambitions man is, in a sense, "dissatisfied" that it is inherent in human nature to always want more than one already has and that many of the 2259 simply refuse to become overcome by inertia. But it is equally, easy to blacken the picture by assuming that the Alumni Appointment Bureau has not a complete file of the jobless and dissatisfied...