Word: careers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prizes are given out on an annual basis, the student who takes one does not sign away his freedom for three whole years and thus virtually cut himself off from future professional training at home. Rather the single year abroad opens a road of valuable experience toward a professional career...
...general function of Alumni Placement was described by Dean Plimpton in Monday's CRIMSON, Summarized briefly, its purpose is that of a clearing house for information on business occupations and specific job opportunities. The Alumni Placement Office considers the individual student responsible for choosing his own career and securing his own job; there is no wish to influence a Senior in the choice of his life work, nor obviously can the office literally get him a job. Each registrant will, however, be assisted to make his choice of work a rational one, and the Office will use its full resources...
...Period will aim to establish objectives as to type of business and kind of job. These talks should bring to a focus a Senior's aptitudes and interests and an evaluation of his background of study and extra-curricular achievement. All those factors which have a bearing on his career must be properly considered and related in order to avoid wasted effort in hunting...
Author Nevins devotes five chapters to Fish's early career, divides the remainder of this fat volume between accounts of foreign affairs and domestic scandals, quotes copiously from Fish's factual, objective diary. Born in 1808, the son of a distinguished Revolutionary officer, Fish's first 60 years were relatively uneventful. In the next eight he packed a lifetime of effort into the negative task of preventing trouble. He kept his head while around him plotters, many of them with Grant's support, worked for war with England and Spain, the annexation of Santo Domingo...
...named Sam Adams, who was considered in his day the greatest fomenter of revolution in the world, the most hated, praised and feared leader of the colonists, and who has since been supplanted in historic significance by men famed chiefly as his tools at the height of his own career. Last week this neglected U. S. hero was made the central figure of a biography that pictured him as a forerunner of the true type of modern revolutionist, an able, unscrupulous, single-minded man, skilled in intrigue and a master of the modern art of political propaganda...