Word: approach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inasmuch as there are three hundreds members of this course, the wisdom of the change speaks for itself. The entire curriculum is organized according to a new plan which took four years to evolve, the aim of which is to supply the student with a more satisfactory method of approach and study. Courses on a specific man or period are given in such a way that the knowledge thereby acquired may be applied to any other period; and a better correlation between these historical courses and the technical courses is being achieved...
...employment. Here is employment denuded of all personal ties and placed on a purely business basis. The applicant determines the market for his services within a fairly narrow scope and sells to that market by sustained and systematic effort until he gets his job. This channel of approach should form the back log of any Senior's campaign to establish himself in the business world...
...Senior seeking an opening in business or industry these are roughly four channels of approach: (1) The industrial representative or recruiter who comes to the Placement Office. (2) The employer who asks the Placement Office to submit candidates for a job. (3) Friends and relatives who are either employers or have influence with them. (4) The employer who has not solicited applicants but who may be appealed to by an aggressive, well-planned approach. In order of their relative importance to the average Senior these sources of employment should be ranked in exactly the inverse order. The truly ambitious...
...market for apprentices is wide and large, and he comes perhaps to select only one or two men from Harvard. Opportunities from the large corporations are therefore placed on a highly competitive basis and the Senior who compete for an offer must make fully as aggressive and convincing an approach to the recruiter as he would make to any other employer. In this type of employment a Senior subjects himself to the keenest possible competition and his chances of landing a job are reduced accordingly...
...part the individual can play in fighting them, such as by political pressure, peace propaganda, and continuous self-education in the field of international events, is the most successful handling of the subject that Harvard has seen in many years. And a sober and clear-headed approach to the problem of keeping peace is not only our best insurance for the future; it is also the finest tribute we can pay to the daring and ideals of the men who fought and died eighteen years...