Word: careers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will be clear even to those only slightly familiar with the subject that the time is now ripe for the effective organization of machinery for maintaining contact with the opportunities for our graduates in the outside world and for informing students early in their college career concerning the nature of the careers open to them. In all this no criticism of the appointments office is meant. Every professor who has had occasion to use that office is well aware with what courtesy and efficiency it is now managed. But the task is too large to be discharged by any single...
...Ford, M.A. '07, discusses the autobiography of Charles Francis Adams. "Union Portraits," a description of some of the Northern leaders in the Civil War, by Gamaliel Bradford '86, is reviewed by Mr. W. R. Thayer '81. Dean Castle treats "Theodore Roosevelt: The Logic of His Career," by C. G. Washburn...
...admission in large centers like New York. Comparatively few men who intend to go into business can afford, whether from the material or from any other point of view, to wait until they are twenty-four or twenty-five years of age before entering upon a practical business career. And it is questionable whether even a few captains of industry will be recruited from this class. A purely graduate school which can never expect more than a handful of students is thus abandoning its opportunity to serve the public in the largest measure. In the second place, not only must...
...cultural and disciplinary college courses which are considered obligatory upon every cultivated man in Europe as in America. In the second place, on this broad basis there will be erected a carefully devised professional or technical curriculum after the completion of which the graduate can enter upon his business career at the age of twenty-two or twenty-three,--about the ordinary age abroad. In the third place, the three-year course, which is midway between the exaggerated four-year Wharton course and the inadequate two-year Harvard and Amos Tuck courses, will permit a comprehensive and well-rounded sequence...
...accounting, banking, finance, transportation, commerce and trade, business organization and management, manufactures, advertising and salesmanship, and the like. At the end of the second year the degree of Bachelor of Science will be awarded so that those who do not care to defer their entrance into a practical business career may start in at the age of the ordinary college graduate. It is expected, however, that a large proportion of the students will continue for a third year, at the end of which the Master's degree will be conferred...